Trump Administration Tries to Stop Trial Over Census Again
- It’s the 7th attempt to derail trial over citizenship question
- N.Y. attorney general urges judge to reject government request
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is trying again to derail a trial over the legality of asking people in the 2020 census about their citizenship.
After 14 judges at various levels rejected the government’s efforts to stop lawsuits over the citizenship question, the administration submitted a seventh request to postpone the trial, this time citing a Supreme Court decision Monday that halted plaintiffs’ attempts to question Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about his decision to include the question in the census.