The Trump administration dropped its effort to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census. The decision comes a week after the Supreme Court said the administration’s rationale was inadequate. It’s a victory for critics who said the question was part of an effort to skew the census results in favor of Republicans. Separately, the fight over President Trump’s tax returns is heading to federal court. The House filed a lawsuit to force the Treasury Department to turn over the tax documents, arguing that the administration’s defiance of its request amounted to “an extraordinary attack on the authority of Congress.”_____

Source: International New York Times July 02, 2019 22:07 UTC