The Trump administration is seeking a legal basis to reinstate the census citizenship question, contradicting its position a day earlier
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration threw the 2020 census into further confusion, telling a federal judge the government was attempting to find a legal basis to reinstate the citizenship question blocked last week by the Supreme Court, a day after Justice Department lawyers said they had dropped the plan.
“We at the Department of Justice have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward, consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision, that would allow us to include the citizenship question on the census,” Assistant...
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