[3] In 2004, he became a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, where he served as an Assistant United States Attorney.

[1] On March 24, 2018, United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced his decision to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 Census questionnaire, asserting that it was necessary to help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

[10] The cases were assigned to Furman, who rejected the plaintiffs' claim that adding the question violated the Enumeration Clause of the U.S. Constitution but held that Ross's decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act and that the Voting-Rights-Act-enforcement rationale was a pretext designed to conceal the true reasons for adding the question.

[12] On June 27, 2019, the Supreme Court affirmed Furman's order, agreeing that the Voting-Rights-Act-enforcement rationale was pretextual.

[13] The Court's decision left open the possibility that Ross could try again to add the citizenship question to the 2020 Census,[13] but the Trump administration did not make a second attempt.