NEW: Senior administration official tells ABC News that Pres. Trump is expected to announce an executive action to move forward with adding citizenship question to census.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would hold a news conference in the afternoon related to “the Census and Citizenship" and a senior administration official told ABC News the president was expected to announce an executive action to move forward with adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
While the Justice Department had initially accepted the Supreme Court’s ruling and signaled the administration would no longer pursue the citizenship question for the 2020 census, the administration abruptly changed course after the president said that the administration was “absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.”
Following that decision, the Justice and Commerce Departments announced last week that printing of the 2020 census would begin without any renewed effort to add the citizenship question. In an interview with the Associated Press, Attorney General Bill Barr disputed that the swap was a result of any internal objections expressed by the previous legal team.Federal judges in both New York and Maryland have denied the government's attempt to withdraw the previous attorneys, both saying the government has not provided enough information on how a transition between the teams wouldn't serve to disrupt ongoing legal proceedings.
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