'Not only didn't I back down, I backed up,' Pres. Trump says after ending efforts to put citizenship question on 2020 census. 'Anybody else would have given this up a long time ago.'
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to obtain an estimate of U.S. citizenship through other means.
But Barr also suggested, near the close of his remarks, that the administration would explore ways to potentially use the information collected from agencies to advise the congressional redistricting process, a move that would almost certainly generate a legal challenge from the same groups that brought lawsuits over the citizenship question.
"Trump's attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper," Ho said."He lost in the Supreme Court, which saw through his lie about needing the question for the Voting Rights Act. It is clear he simply wanted to sow fear in immigrant communities and turbocharge Republican gerrymandering efforts by diluting the political influence of Latino communities."
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who's federal case against the citizenship question being added to the census ultimately led to the Supreme Court's decision, said she hoped"that this action will at long last allow us to put this national nightmare behind us."
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