Trump Won’t Pursue Citizenship Question After All

“President Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that he will not pursue efforts to get a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census… after the administration spent weeks seeking a legal rationale for doing so,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“In a news conference at the White House Thursday afternoon, the president is expected to address next steps for obtaining that information through other means.”

Rick Hasen predicted this last week: “As I understand it from people who have been following this more closely than I am, the Census Department is still going to create citizenship data which can then be used for redistricting. Ross ordered the Census Bureau to compile citizenship data through existing administrative records, something bureau experts had told him would be cheaper and more accurate than a question anyway.”