A lawyer with the Department of Justice said Wednesday that agency officials have been ordered to determine whether there is a way the administration can include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, hours after a tweet from President Trump raised confusion over the status of the question.
Joseph Hunt, an assistant attorney general with DOJ’s civil division, said Wednesday that the department has 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.”
“We think there may be a legally available path under the Supreme Court's decision. We're examining that, looking at near-term options to see whether that's viable and possible,” Hunt said, according to a transcript of a teleconference held in federal court in Maryland.
The DOJ official said that the agency currently plans to file a motion in the Supreme Court that would “govern further proceedings in order to simplify and expedite the remaining litigation and provide clarity to the process going forward.”
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Make it so.
ReplyDeleteCome on folks.
ReplyDeleteDon't fall for this one.
The government lies to us every single day about every single thing
Seriously, you don't expect them to actually tell you what their Census found, do you?
JUST DO IT!!!
ReplyDeleteEventually we will need to require PROOF of citizenship or the Democrats will flood this country with illegals and we will have no country. Today is a day when all Democrats should hang their head in shame. GOD BLESS AMERICA and President Trump.
ReplyDeleteI love the United States of America, please do not let Democrats and illegals take over our beautiful country. God Bless President Trump and God Bless America.
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Deletewill be beaten just like the British were
hang in there
Northwest Woodsman: No matter what they come up with, some Marxist democrat federal judge will decide against it. That issue needs to be addressed. Shouldn’t have some obscure Marxist democrat from Podunk, AK making decisions that effect the whole country, especially when it is based upon his politics rather than the constitution.
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