SCOTUS caught imagining ‘illegitimate motives’ in census case

In the much publicized case of Department of Commerce v New York (the Census Case), decided on the final day of the Supreme Court’s most recent term, the Court, by a 5-4 vote, decided that the Secretary of Commerce could not add a question pertaining to citizenship to the 2020 census.
As with most Supreme Court decisions, media coverage focused on the specific result in the case, which was seen, and celebrated by many, as a defeat for President Trump. The result in the case may or may not