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. But it may have been the only way the administration could continue pushing for the citizenship question in court.
View the complete July 8 article by Jacqueline Thomsen on The Hill website here.