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Trump Administration Still Searching for Legal Rationale to Add Citizenship Question

7/5/19
from The Wall Street Journal,
7/5/19:

President earlier said he was considering executive order, other options to add question.

Hours after President Trump said Friday he was considering an executive order to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge in Maryland that the administration was still exploring its options. “The Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Commerce have been asked to reevaluate all available options following the Supreme Court’s decision and whether the Supreme Court’s decision would allow for a new decision to include the citizenship question on the 2020 Decennial Census,” the lawyers wrote in court filings. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge George Hazel gave government lawyers until 2 p.m. Friday to say whether the administration was dropping the citizenship question—as the Justice Department said on Tuesday—or continuing to seek a legal basis to add it, as President Trump tweeted a day later. Administration lawyers worked over the July 4 holiday to try to come up with a path for getting the question onto the census forms, which are already being printed without it.

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