The Trump administration seemingly missed its self-imposed Monday deadline for printing forms for the 2020 census, on the heels of last week’s Supreme Court decision to block a question about citizenship on the country’s constitutionally mandated headcount
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“I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the United States Supreme Court is given additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on this very critical matter,” Trump said in the tweet. In the majority opinion authored by Roberts, the Supreme Court refuted the argument laid out by the Trump administration that a citizenship question needed to be added to the census in order to enforce the Voting Rights Act. It ordered the case to be reconsidered by a lower court.
The Trump administration initially wanted to ask respondents, “Are you a citizen of the United States?” in the questionnaire, which will eventually be used to draw a portrait of the country: How many people live here, how old are they, what is their race and ethnicity.
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