“I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” the Reagan-appointed judge told an attorney for the Trump administration. A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s unilateral attempt to end birthright citizenship, calling the move “blatantly unconstitutional.” The decision from Judge John Coughenour […]
U.S. President Donald Trump responded Thursday to the Supreme Court’s decision to block his administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the upcoming U.S. census by saying he’d asked his lawyers whether there was a way to delay the nationwide head count. In a tweet hours after the court announced its decision, Trump said […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed executive privilege Wednesday to refuse to hand over documents to opposition Democratic lawmakers investigating a question about citizenship on next year’s once-a-decade U.S. census. Trump’s action came just ahead of a scheduled vote by the House of Representatives Oversight Committee on whether to hold Attorney General William […]
A federal judge has blocked the Commerce Department from including a question about U.S. citizenship on the 2020 census. To plaintiffs in the case — a sizable coalition of states, cities and advocates — the question seemed aimed at turning the official population survey into a tool to advance Trump administration policies by discouraging immigrants from […]