citizenship question Archives

New report sends ‘flashing red lights’ that Census Bureau isn’t ready for count

The Government Accountability Office is casting doubt about whether the Census Bureau’s infrastructure is ready for the decennial population survey.

By Associated Press - February 15, 2020

Civil rights groups battle Trump in court to block legally dubious Census data grab

Civil rights groups in Maryland want to block an order from Donald Trump to obtain citizenship data through administrative records.

By Associated Press - January 18, 2020

Trump officials ‘miss’ their own census deadline while they look for ways to rig it

Trump officials missed their own July 1 deadline to print more than 1.5 billion copies of the Census, NPR reported.

By Emily Singer - July 02, 2019

House Oversight Committee votes to hold two members of Trump’s Cabinet in contempt

Trump’s attorney general and secretary of commerce refused to comply with a subpoena for documents related to a citizenship question in the 2020 Census.

By Emily Singer - June 12, 2019

GOP paid millions to strategist behind the plot to rig the Census to keep GOP in power

‘Legal and compliance’ work is GOP code for disenfranchisement.

By Mike Stankiewicz - June 06, 2019

GOP strategist behind census rigging admitted it would be ‘advantageous to Republicans’

New documents reveal the Trump administration based its census citizenship question on advice from a GOP strategist who concocted it to disadvantage Democrats.

By Emily Singer - May 30, 2019