The Trump administration said on Friday it would continue to look for ways to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census after missing a deadline to provide an adequate reason for it. “The Departments of Commerce and Justice have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward, consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision, that would allow for the inclusion of the citizenship question on the census,” Justice Department lawyers said in a court filing Friday. “Plaintiffs’ remaining claims are based on the premise that the genesis of the citizenship question was steeped in discriminatory motive,” Hazel wrote in a court order. The Census Bureau, which requires years to prepare for the decennial census, began printing forms for the 2020 census this week. “Obviously, as you can imagine, I am doing my absolute best to figure out what’s going on.”This story has been updated with Judge George Hazel’s response to the Trump administration.

Source: Huffington Post July 05, 2019 18:14 UTC