National How The Fight Over The Census Citizenship Question Could Rage On President Trump threatened to delay next year's constitutionally mandated head count hours after the Supreme Court ruled to keep a citizenship question off 2020 census forms for now. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Supreme Court Leaves Citizenship Question Blocked For Now From 2020 Census The decision comes more than a year after the Trump administration announced plans to include on forms for the national head count the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" Nina Totenberg Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Trump Blocked Congress From Seeing These Emails About The Census Unredacted President Trump has claimed executive privilege over emails and memos that Democratic lawmakers say may reveal the real reason why the administration pushed for a census citizenship question. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Citizenship Question Lawsuit Plaintiffs Ask Supreme Court To Delay Ruling In a last-minute request, plaintiffs' attorneys led by the ACLU are asking the justices to wait to rule on the census question in light of documents that show an alleged Trump administration cover-up. Hansi Lo Wang
Law & Courts Justice Dept. Cites Executive Privilege In Keeping Census Documents From Democrats As Congress was holding a hearing on contempt for two Cabinet secretaries, the Justice Department said that it would not surrender materials sought by oversight committee Chairman Elijah Cummings. Philip Ewing
Politics GOP Redistricting Strategist Played Role In Push For Census Citizenship Question A deceased redistricting specialist's documents suggest the citizenship question was added to redraw political maps to favor Republicans and non-Hispanic white people, according to a new court filing. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Trump's Proposed Census Citizenship Question Bucks Centuries Of Precedent Never before has the U.S. census directly asked for the citizenship status of every person living in every household. The question the Trump administration wants on the 2020 census could change that. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics 6 Themes To Pay Attention To In Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions From the census citizenship question and political gerrymandering to the separation of church and state, the high court will make some rulings of consequence over the next month. Domenico Montanaro
Politics Companies That Rely On Census Data Worry Citizenship Question Will Hurt Lyft and Univision are among the critics of the citizenship question the Trump administration wants on the 2020 census. The businesses say it could harm the national head count and their bottom line. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Census Bureau Must Be 'Totally Objective' On Citizenship Question, Director Says Responding to President Trump's tweet defending the controversial question, Steven Dillingham says his job will be "to conduct a census whether the question's in there or if it isn't." Hansi Lo Wang
