Trump will likely lose the fight over the census citizenship question. Here's why:
President Donald Trump’s fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is one he seems likely to lose.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.Trump’s continued insistence on adding the citizenship question increases the risk of additional disclosures about the White House’s role in the effort. Hazel previously ruled that only Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s intent was relevant to the legal issues in the case. But with the litigation now focused on issues of intentional discrimination and a conspiracy to deprive Latinos of their civil rights, the plaintiffs are planning a broader effort to turn up evidence that could be problematic for the administration.
“It’s been our contention throughout that the White House was directly involved,” Hulett said, “facilitating connections between Ross and whoever they needed to connect him with.” Any attempt to add a citizenship question at this point also could run into trouble with logistics and cost.Friday the administration had considered “four or five ways” to ask about citizenship on the census, including printing an addendum to the standard questionnaire. But an addendum could cause its own problems, according to John Thompson, a former Census director who spent more than three decades with the bureau and resigned in May 2017.
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