The Trump admin. tells federal judge Friday that government lawyers are looking at 'all available options' for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census form
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration notified a federal judge Friday that government lawyers are looking at"all available options" for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census form that goes to every U.S. household.
"We have four or five ways we can do it. It's one of the ways and we're thinking about doing it very seriously," Trump said before leaving Washington for a weekend at his golf club in New Jersey.The Supreme Court ruled late last month that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross did not provide an honest reason for why he wanted to include the question. The court accordingly barred the government from using that reason to add the question to the form.
If the Commerce Department does come up with a new rationale, the groups that have opposed the question and who have prevailed in court so far"will be fully entitled to challenge the decision at that time," the government's court filing said.
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