Posted on 07/11/2019 11:17:44 AM PDT by GIdget2004
President Donald Trump is expected to announce later Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to survey the American public on the question through other means, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The expected announcement will bring to a close weeks of escalating confusion within the government over his demands that the controversial question be included despite a Supreme Court order that had blocked the move. The White House declined to comment about what exactly the president plans to announce.
As recently as Thursday morning, administration officials had been repeatedly suggested the president would take executive action calling for the question be added to the census. It was not immediately clear when and why the final decision was made not to move forward with that plan.
Attorney General William Barr, who is also expected to attend the announcement, will now have to determine a path forward for three separate ongoing court cases the administration is fighting in Maryland, California and New York over the administration's efforts to add the question to the census.
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The citizenship question will never be on another census. John Roberts is an idiot.
The contents don’t match the headline.
Go figure.
SNORT.
The census will be invalid without that information.
Lame.
There you go. Pull out the old schlong.
Absurd. This violates MY rights as a citizen with respect to Congressional representation
Why have a census if it doesn’t count how many citizens a country has ?
Note that there is no prohibition on doing the Census again in 2021.
Just a little while ago the news was that he IS putting in the citizenship question.
Now they say he is backing off.
Which is it?
The MSM needs to get their act together, find out and report what really is going on.
I suggest all citizens refuse to answer any questions.
Never say never, or even “not this year.”
Another case where “Trump judges” have done us no good at all.
ABC News ...
HAHA!!! LOL!!!
Dontcha love how everything the dems oppose is called *controversial*?
It’s never controversial when they support it.
Shut up and pay your taxes serf /sarcasm.
Yes, they do. He isn’t getting the question on the census.
Instead his fig leaf is some other sort of survey, which will have zero impact on the fraudulent inflation of headcount for census purposes with the 40M+ illegals in our country.
It’s not the MSM here, it is clearly the word coming out of the WH. And nothing new. In between, the judge didn’t allow the DoJ to swap out legal teams, but I don’t see how that should have made a difference. If the team they had in there wasn’t doing what needed to be done, they should have been fired.
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