House Facing Off Against Trump Administration in Census Row (1)

April 23, 2019, 8:57 AM UTCUpdated: April 23, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

Two branches of government will clash today during Supreme Court arguments over the much-anticipated census dispute in one of the term’s most closely watched cases.

U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco will take the podium for the Trump administration in its quest to add a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial count. Douglas Letter, general counsel of the U.S. House, will be one of three lawyers arguing against that addition.

It isn’t the first time the federal government has taken opposite sides in a high court argument. Just last term, the Solicitor General’s Office faced off against the National Labor Relations ...

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