Census

Trump's tweet "was the first I had heard of the president’s position" on the citizenship question that was shot down by Supreme Court, said attorney.
President Donald Trump's administration instructed Justice Department lawyers to try to get the citizenship question back on the census, a DOJ attorney told a federal judge on Wednesday.
The social media giant said it would treat the census like an election, but not everyone is impressed with the changes.
Civil rights groups celebrated after the Supreme Court did not allow the Trump administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now.
The plaintiffs said the Trump administration's justification for adding the question was a lie.
“He had years to delete those files,” Stephanie Hofeller said in an interview.
Lawyers representing North Carolina Republicans said lawyers representing Common Cause obtained the information unethically.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) scorched the Trump administration for adding a citizenship question to the Census.
The House Oversight Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt.
The disclosure adds more context to how the Trump administration decided to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.