Justice Department Confirms: No Citizenship Question

The Justice Department says the 2020 Census is moving ahead without a question about citizenship, the AP reports. Kristen Clarke, an attorney for a civil rights group that helped fight the addition of the question, says Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would be starting soon. Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco has confirmed there would be "no citizenship question on 2020 census."

"We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process," a DOJ trial attorney told other attorneys in the case Tuesday, per CNN. The White House didn't immediately comment on the decision. President Trump has decried last week's Supreme Court ruling saying the question was sought under a false pretext. Spokespeople for the US Census Bureau have not responded to emails or phone calls seeking comment. (More on Trump's reaction to the SCOTUS ruling here.)