July 4, 2019

Trump won't give up on citizenship question

The Hill -  President Trump said Thursday his administration is working "very hard" on the Fourth of July in a last-ditch effort to find a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census after a federal judge gave the administration a Friday deadline. .... The Supreme Court last week overturned the Trump administration's push to add the new question.

A lawyer with the Department of Justice said Wednesday that agency officials had been ordered to figure out if there is a "legally available path" for the administration to still add the question.

The department's announcement followed a tweet from Trump that stirred confusion. The president said reports that the Department of Commerce dropped its request are "FAKE!"

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