"The citizenship question is the latest attempt by President Trump to stoke the fires of anti-immigrant hostility," Padilla said in a statement. The administration's claim that it is simply seeking to protect voting rights is not only laughable, but contemptible." "The addition of a citizenship question to the census questionnaire is a direct attack on our representative democracy," Holder said in a statement. The Justice Department has also sued California over its so-called sanctuary policies to protect immigrants. The administration's decision to add a citizenship question is at best a dramatic misstep, and at worst a politically-motivated move that will undermine a fair and accurate census," Weiser said.

Source: CNN March 27, 2018 14:08 UTC