NEW YORK (AP) — A federal gather formally banned the citizenship puzzle from the 2020 census at Tuesday, days back principal Donald Trump announced his administration used to no longer pursue to add it.

Judge Jesse Furman signed an order back New York country attorney common Letitia James and the American polite Liberties union told him at a alphabet that defendants including the commerce department didn't reject their application though an order. The honesty department declined to comment.

The order was a chiefly procedural motion allowing Furman to maintain jurisdiction at the occurrence the government switches tactics and pursues adding the puzzle again. He said he'll maintain jurisdiction to enforce the condition of the order until the 2020 census results are processed and sent to the president. That is supposed to hazard by Dec. 31, 2020.

For now, though, the order has the consequence of closing the conflict brought by numerous states and municipalities over the country. Lawyers though the plaintiffs had argued that adding the citizenship puzzle though the first time during 1950 used to depress participation by immigrants, lowering the population calculate at states that tend to vote Democratic and deceasing government funds and congressional representation to those areas.

Furman had ruled against adding the citizenship puzzle early this year. The U.S. Supreme stadium then temporarily blocked plans to add the census question, saying the administration's justification though adding it "seems to consume been contrived."

After conflicting signals from Trump and the honesty department at if they'd pursue adding the puzzle anyway, Trump announced Thursday that he was directing federal agencies to experiment to compile the news using existing databases instead — saying that used to assist detect the citizenship of at 90% percent of the population.