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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce new executive action Thursday during a news conference on the 2020 census and his push to include a citizenship question. Trump tweeted Thursday morning that he planned “a News Conference on the Census and Citizenship” after a White House Social Media Summit. A senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the plans, said the president would be announcing new action, but the official did not elaborate. Trump said last week that he was “very seriously” considering executive action to try to force the question’s inclusion, and...

President Trump’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is an attempt to “make America white again,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday, co-opting his campaign slogan. She also said there will likely be a vote to hold the Commerce secretary in contempt of Congress for refusing to detail his decision-making on why he tried to add the citizenship question to next year’s count. And she said even as the courts rule on Mr. Trump’s renewed efforts to include the question, Congress will try to increase the amount of money spent on the census in order to...

President Trump will announce that he will use executive action to add a citizenship question on the 2020 census at a news conference Thursday afternoon, a White House source confirmed to The Post. The president tweeted that he would address the controversial question in a tweet Thursday morning days after he signaled he was considering using an executive order to include it. “The White House will be hosting a very big and very important Social Media Summit today. Would I have become President without Social Media??,” Trump said on Twitter. “Yes (probably)! At its conclusion, we will all go to...

Posted on July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope On The Sinful Census Conducted by King David In the Office of Readings this week we read about a census conducted by King David that caused great harm (2 Samuel 24). Joab, David’s general, strongly cautioned him not to take the census, but David insisted. When the census had been completed, the prophet Gad informed David that God was angry and intended to punish him and all Israel. God offered David his choice of punishments: a three-year famine, three months of military fighting from Israel’s enemies, or three...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday blasted President Trump’s push for a citizenship question on the 2020 census as an effort to “Make America White Again” — claiming, “it’s not what our founders had in mind.”“They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted,” Pelosi said at a press conference in San Francisco that focused on election security.“Just their people vote and not the general population,” said the Democratic lawmaker. “That’s why they’re fighting the census.”White House officials did not immediately return requests for comment from The Post on the statements.Pelosi, who was visiting her home district Monday, repeatedly called the idea...

A federal judge in New York said on Tuesday that the Justice Department cannot swap out its legal team in the census citizenship question case. "Defendants provide no reasons, let alone 'satisfactory reasons,' for the substitution of counsel," wrote District Judge Jesse Furman, citing upcoming deadlines. "As this Court observed many months ago, this case has been litigated on the premise -- based 'in no small part' on Defendants' own 'insist(ence)' -- that the speedy resolution of Plaintiffs' claims is a matter of great private and public importance."

Putting the citizenship question on the census is a Republican plot to steal the next election. It’s designed to suppress funding for low-income communities. It’s just racist. Take your pick of which of these typical headlines you like. To read most of the coverage in major newspapers or on the usual cable news shows, adding the citizenship question is an evil concept that all morally upright citizens should reject. But if that’s the case, why are so many people in favor of it? As it turns out, a majority of voters favor it and not even a third oppose...

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he believes the Trump administration can legally add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, though the Supreme Court ruled against its inclusion last month. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said he has been in regular contact with President Trump about the question, which the president is determined to see featured on the decennial survey. “I agree with him that the Supreme Court decision was wrong,” Barr told the AP. The attorney general added that he thinks there is “an opportunity potentially to cure the lack of clarity that was...

I have decided that if they keep the citizenship question off the census... I am going to burn my form in front of the census taker and record it all on my cell phone. Let them arrest me... No watering down our Representation as a citizen. PERIOD.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) argued Monday that President Trump's push to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census is an effort to "make America white again" in an adaptation of his campaign slogan. "This is about keeping — you know his hat — make America white again," Pelosi said at an event in San Francisco about election security legislation, referring to the red "Make America Great Again" hats that are popular among Trump supporters. Pelosi, like other critics of adding the citizenship question to the 2020 census, argued that it could result in racial minorities being undercounted so that...

The Trump administration’s internal legal struggles to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census are spilling out into the open. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced late Sunday that it was cleaning house on the team of lawyers that have spent the past year defending the citizenship question in court. That move came just days after DOJ attorneys told a federal judge that they were caught off guard by President Trump’s announcement that he still wanted the question on the census after the Supreme Court ruled against it. Legal experts were shocked by the decision to change attorneys....

The Justice Department is shaking up the legal team fighting for the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census but offered no specifics on why the change was being made. The change announced Sunday comes days after the department vowed to continue to try to find a legal path forward to include the question on the census. The Trump administration has faced numerous roadblocks to adding the question, including a ruling from the Supreme Court that blocked its inclusion, at least temporarily. President Donald Trump said last week that he was “very seriously” considering an executive order to...

Americans by a wide margin agree with President Trump that the upcoming 2020 census should ask a citizenship question. The latest Economist/YouGov poll found that 53% feel it should ask the question versus 32% who don’t. The survey asked: “Do you think the federal government should or should not ask people whether they are American citizens as part of the 2020 census?"

FULL TITLE: PHOTO: The 2000 US Census Asked Citizenship Question — Obama Deleted it in 2010 — Trump Wants It Back in 2020 On June 27th the United States Supreme Court ruled on the census citizenship question. SCOTUS sent it back to a lower court. The decision essentially blocked the citizen question from the 2020 census. Back in April the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the high-stakes 2020 Census questionnaire. This was a regularly asked question in historical census forms from 1820-1950. As Michelle Malkin reported at the time,...

FULL TITLE: Trump just said in impromptu news conference that he needs citizenship data for Congressional districting. So now we know. This is effort to deny political representation to non citizens.

...An official White House petition has been created today that you can sign by clicking, adding your name and email address, and then responding to a confirmation email. The URL for the page...is here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/resolved-we-people-demand-citizenship-question-be-required-within-2020-census?fbclid=IwAR0tTeHz275I1wWp7ohmQd22IN3WNITx_3Yv08Zbs3AB4-ht0vJ_n5LRcVI

President Trump holds winning cards on the census citizenship question, both politically and legally. An overwhelming majority, 67% of Americans, see such a question as legitimate, and those who want to obscure the difference between citizens and non-citizens have an argument that will not add to the ranks of those voting Democrat in the 2020 presidential race. Moreover, despite media spin (“American pride has hit an all-time low, a poll finds”), emphasizing the increase in the number of Americans who aren’t proud (almost all of the increase among Democrats who only love America when a Democrat is president), fully...

A Republican congressman has encouraged President Trump to ignore the Supreme Court and print the 2020 U.S. Census with the question about citizenship, as the president mulls an executive order. Rep. Chip Roy, who represents the Lone Star State's 21st Congressional District -- covering much of the area north of San Antonio, plus much of Austin -- made the call on social media amid the controversy over the census citizenship question that caused some confusion within the Trump administration on whether the question will appear on the survey. “It’s the lawyers advising him,” Roy wrote in a tweet. “[Trump] should...

Maybe I missed this and hadn't seen it discussed here at FR, but a caller to Rush said there was a movement in CA to convince Rs and conservatives NOT to answer the census in order to deliberately cause a massive undercount of CA's population, which he argued, would then result in congressional seats being taken away from CA. It would "hurt" Californians by reducing their representation, but since they are always D-dominated, it really wouldn't hurt them. Thoughts and arguments on this? Anyone in CA: is this gaining traction?

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called news reports that the Commerce Department would drop its plans to ask people if they are U.S. citizens on the 2020 census “FAKE.” Trump’s claim came a day after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the Census Bureau is in the process of printing the census questionnaire without the citizenship question. But Trump, in a tweet, said, “The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!”