(Bloomberg) -- Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross must sit for a deposition in a lawsuit challenging the Department’s decision to ask U.S. residents about their citizenship status as part of the census, a federal judge in New York ruled, saying his "intent and credibility are directly at issue."

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