Immigration,
Government,
Constitutional Law
Mar. 18, 2019
The Census battle continues
In a case where the unusual has become the norm, all eyes will be on the Supreme Court to see if or how it addresses the California court's finding that the proposed census question is unconstitutional.
Kaylan Phillips
Litigation Counsel
Public Interest Legal Foundation
Public Interest Legal Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public interest law firm dedicated to election integrity. The foundation filed amicus briefs supporting the government's reinstatement of the citizenship question before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Is this person a citizen of the United States?" The Department of Justice requested that this question, a form of which has been on decennial census surveys before and is presently asked of a sampling of households periodically, be reinstated on the 2020 Census to provide it critical data in order to more fully enforce federal law. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross reinstated the question.
The reinstatement of the citizenship questi...
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