The Trump administration on Tuesday said it will print the 2020 census without a question about citizenship, bringing to an apparent close a contentious legal battle over that aspect of the decennial survey.
The announcement comes after the Supreme Court effectively blocked the addition of the question on Thursday. Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinion of the court, wrote that the administration's explanation for adding the question — that it would bolster efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act — appeared "contrived."The announcement from the Department of Justice comes after the Supreme Court effectively blocked the addition of the question on Thursday.
But after that decision was announced, it was not clear whether government lawyers would attempt to present another rationale for the question. Any attempt to do so faced a tight deadline. The Census Bureau said it had to begin printing by July 1 or additional resources would be required. Critics of the question argued that including it would reduce the accuracy of the census and undercount minority populations, including immigrants. Census data is used to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding and allocate representation in Congress. A citizenship question has not been posed to all U.S. households in decades.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was considering delaying the census, though he did not present a legal basis to do so. House Democrats opposed any delay of the census.is codified in Title 13 of the US Code, " House Census Caucus Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said in a statement earlier Tuesday. "Only Congress has the authority to delay the census and must do so through the legislative process, which we have no intention of doing.
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