WASHINGTON—Pitched legal and political battles have begun over whether the 2020 census should ask respondents if they are U.S. citizens, with Democratic lawmakers and state officials lining up to block the plan and the Trump administration strongly defending it. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he would lead a multistate lawsuit to stop the administration from adding the question to the census after it announced its intention to do so late Monday night. Last month, he and 18 other attorneys general and one...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 27, 2018 20:47 UTC