Last week the Supreme Court gave a thumbs down to including a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Today Trump said he might use an executive order to include it.
The Trump administration confirmed Friday that it will press forward with efforts to add a citizenship question to next year's census, with President Donald Trump saying he’s exploring the possibility of reviving the question via executive order and government lawyers telling a federal judge that they've "been asked to reevaluate all available options."
But civil rights groups, Democratic-led state governments, and lower court judges said DOJ had expressed little interest in that data before or after it backed Ross’s move. Experts said adding the question would decrease the accuracy of voting-age citizen data because the query would lead a substantial number of people to avoid the entire survey.
The Constitution states that apportionment for congressional seats be based on “persons” — not citizens. Trump's statement could be seen as bolstering the claims of opponents of the question that the administration's true purpose in adding the question is to diminish the political power of Latinos and other immigrants, who tend to reside in areas represented by Democrats.
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