The Trump administration has agreed to a court order that will formally block it from asking about citizenship on the 2020 Census, Justice Department lawyers told a judge.
New York and immigrant advocacy groups successfully sued to block the question. But even after the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump in June, he said he was still considering ways to place a citizenship query on the once-a-decade survey. He surrendered that fight on July 11.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, government lawyers said July 16 that they don’t oppose an order barring the U.S. from ...
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