The question has always been there wonder why the Republicans allowed obama to remove? Wonder why the media didn't do their job ? wonder why obama wasn't taken to court over the removal?
Lastly why did the supreme court rule against it?
Well, first, it was only on the long form, not the short form.
Second, they realized that the question was counterproductive.
Here's the underlying problem. As it stands now, only 70% of people respond to the census, and the rest have to be tracked down and counted.
The last thing you want is to discourage participation further. Unless thats exactly what you want, because you know that if we ever got an accurate count, there would be a huge increase in minority counts.