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A court rules that Trump's latest attempt to meddle with the census is illegal; the UK's new Brexit bill violates international law. Tonight's Sentences was written by Cameron Peters. TOP NEWS "A huge victory for voting rights and for immigrants’ rights" Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images - On Thursday, a federal court in New York blocked a Trump administration effort to exclude unauthorized immigrants from a 2020 census count used to allocate congressional seats. [[CBS News / Camilo Montoya-Galvez](] - Trump instructed the Census Bureau in a July memo to report two sets of numbers: a full count of the US population, as usual, and a second count without unauthorized immigrants for the purpose of reapportioning House seats for the next decade. [[CNN / Gregory Wallace](] - In response to an ACLU lawsuit, however, a three-judge panel concluded Thursday that Trump’s order, which could have advantaged Republicans in the reapportionment process, was unlawful. [[Politico / Rebecca Rainey and Matthew Choi](] - The panel’s decision permanently blocks both the Census Bureau and the Commerce Department from reporting any information about “the number of aliens in each State who are not in a lawful immigration status” to Trump, though it may still be appealed. [[NPR / Hansi Lo Wang](] - Thursday’s ruling is a second census loss for the Trump administration this month after a district court judge issued a temporary restraining order to stop the Census Bureau from taking steps to wrap up its count by the end of September. [[AP / Mike Schneider](] - Originally, the census was set to conclude this summer, but it was extended through October in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Trump administration shifted that date to September 30 last month, and a court hearing on the subject is scheduled for next week. [[Axios / Kim Hart](] - The census determines not just the distribution of political power for the next decade but also the allocation of about $1.5 trillion per year in federal funding. A rushed, politicized count conducted in a pandemic could jeopardize that. [[Politico / Zack Stanton](] - An inaccurate count is also likely to disproportionately affect some of the country’s most vulnerable populations, including immigrants and low-income people. [[Vox / Riley Beggin](] - As Vox’s Nicole Narea reported last month, Trump has repeatedly attempted to interfere with the census, but the courts have repeatedly rebuffed him. In June 2019, the Supreme Court blocked a Trump administration attempt to add a citizenship question to the decennial count. [[Vox / Nicole Narea](] - If you haven't filled out the census yet, it's not too late — and you can do it online! For all of your census questions, check out this Recode guide from April. [[Recode / Sara Morrison](] [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Britain's new Brexit plan: Break international law - A Brexit more than four years in the making took a new turn this week when the UK government conceded that its current plan for Northern Ireland was a violation of international law — but stuck by the bill anyway. [[Guardian / Lisa O'Carroll](] - The Internal Market Bill would cut the EU out of decisions about checks and tariffs to be imposed on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK but shares a border with Ireland (a member of the European Union). [[V]([ox / Jen Kirby](] - The EU has a stake in those checks and tariffs because goods in Northern Ireland could easily cross the border into Ireland, and thus the EU single market. The UK had previously agreed to determine checks on goods through a joint committee with the EU. [[Vox / Alex Ward](] - But British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is taking a hard line on the new bill in defiance of that agreement, a decision that has already alienated EU leaders and could imperil an eventual EU-UK trade deal. [[Reuters / William James, John Chalmers, and Kate Abnett](] - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also warned Wednesday that Johnson could be putting a future US-UK trade deal at risk. “If the UK violates that international treaty and Brexit undermines the Good Friday accord," she said, "there will be absolutely no chance of a US-UK trade agreement passing the Congress." [[CNN / Luke McGee](] MISCELLANEOUS Half a million people in Oregon have been ordered to evacuate as historic wildfires ravage the West Coast. [[AP / Andrew Selsky and Sara Cline](] - The Afghan government is set to begin peace talks with the Taliban this weekend as the US continues to draw down its troop presence in the region. [[NYT / Mujib Mashal](] - An appeals court on Friday upheld a Florida law disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people previously convicted of felonies. [[Washington Post / Lori Rozsa](] - China is forging ahead with large-scale Covid-19 vaccinations, even though phase 3 clinical trials have not been completed. [[Vox / Lili Pike](] - “The real heroes are dead”: As the US commemorates the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, read this New Yorker story from 2002. [[New Yorker / James B. Stewart](] - A cute dog to start your weekend. [[Twitter / WeRateDogs](] [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( CROSSWORD OF THE DAY [Can you solve today's crossword?]( What’s a 10-letter word for a constellation that is also a supernova remnant and the brightest extrasolar radio source in the sky? [Solve today's new Vox crossword puzzle](, and stay tuned for more puzzles coming out Monday through Saturday. VERBATIM "I quite literally have no patience for climate change deniers. It's completely inconsistent, that point of view, with the reality on the ground, the facts as we are experiencing. You may not believe it intellectually, but your own eyes, your own experiences tell a different story." [[California Gov. Gavin Newsom on climate change and wildfires / Politico](] LISTEN TO THIS [The pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from dating, hooking up, or tying the knot]( The pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from dating, hooking up, or tying the knot. In fact, lockdown has been helping some people get down. 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