Justice Department Renews Citizenship Question Push as Confusion Spreads
Posted on AllSides July 4th, 2019
From The Center
The Trump administration threw the census into further confusion Wednesday, telling two federal judges that the government was seeking a legal basis to reinstate the citizenship question halted by the Supreme Court, a day after Justice Department lawyers said they dropped a plan to include the question.
“We at the Department of Justice have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward, consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision, that would allow us to include the citizenship question on the census,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said in a...
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