The Trump administration is set to defend its controversial decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census in a closely watched federal trial that will begin Monday in New York City. In March, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, announced he had decided to add the question. It has not asked about citizenship on its decennial survey ― which goes out to every American household ― since 1950. The Voting Rights Act, the basis for the Justice Department’s request to add the citizenship question, was passed in 1965. v. United States Department of Commerce, et al., is likely to focus on the way Commerce Department officials made the decision to add the citizenship question.

Source: Huffington Post November 04, 2018 17:00 UTC