2020 Census won't have citizenship question; administration stops fighting for it after Supreme Court decision - Entrepreneur Generations

The 2020 Census won't include the controversial citizenship question. Last week the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's stated reason for including the question; on Tuesday, administration officials ordered the Census Bureau to start printing forms for next year without the question, Michael Wines reports for The New York Times.

A citizenship question would likely reduce responses in places with high Latinx populations, including some agricultural areas, which would affect everything from political maps to federal funding.

The move to stop fighting for the question's inclusion is an abrupt about-face. "Just last week after the Supreme Court’s decision, President Trump said he was asking his lawyers to delay the census, 'no matter how long,' in order to fight for the question in court. He reiterated his unwillingness to give up in a Twitter message posted late Tuesday, saying he had asked administration officials 'to do whatever is necessary' to get a citizenship question on the census form," Wines reports. "Word of the administration’s decision to stop fighting came in a one-sentence email from the Justice Department to lawyers for plaintiffs in a New York lawsuit that sought to block the question’s inclusion in the head count."

The email didn't explain the decision, but the administration may have been concerned about getting the forms printed in time. The Census Bureau had said it needed to start printing questionnaires by July 1 to meet an April 2020 deadline for conducting the census, Wines reports.

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