{"id":139014,"date":"2019-07-03T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/trump-denies-citizenship-question-will-be-cut-from-2020-census\/"},"modified":"2019-07-03T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:58:13","slug":"trump-denies-citizenship-question-will-be-cut-from-2020-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/trump-denies-citizenship-question-will-be-cut-from-2020-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump denies citizenship question will be cut from 2020 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Trump on Wednesday appeared to cast doubt on his own commerce secretary\u2019s statement a day before that the 2020 census would not include a question on US citizenship<\/a> \u2014 calling the reports \u201dFAKE!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE! We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question,\u201d the commander in chief tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, commerce chief Wilbur Ross said the opposite.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question,\u201d Ross, 81, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy focus, and that of the Bureau and the entire Department, is to conduct a complete and accurate census.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco also confirmed Tuesday there would be \u201cno citizenship question on 2020 census.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was unclear whether the president meant that the administration would continue to fight to have the controversial question \u2014 which critics charge would result in an undercount of Latinos and other minorities \u2014 included next year or in some future census.<\/p>\n

Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham did not immediately respond to a request for clarification from The Post.<\/p>\n

Days after the Supreme Court halted the addition<\/a> of the citizenship question, the Census Bureau was expected to start printing the questionnaire without the query.<\/p>\n

Administration lawyers notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would begin, said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the National Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.<\/p>\n

Trump had said after the high court\u2019s decision last week that he would ask his attorneys about possibly delaying next spring\u2019s decennial census until the Supreme Court could revisit the matter, raising questions about whether printing of the census materials would start as planned this month.<\/p>\n

For months, the Trump administration had argued that the courts needed to decide quickly whether the citizenship question could be added because of the deadline to starting printing materials this week.<\/p>\n

On Twitter Tuesday night, Trump wrote<\/a> that the Supreme Court ruling marked a \u201cvery sad time for America.\u201d He also said he had asked the Commerce and Justice departments \u201cto do whatever is necessary to bring this most vital of questions, and this very important case, to a successful conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team Trump had said the question was being added to aid in enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters\u2019 access to the ballot box.<\/p>\n

But in the Supreme Court\u2019s decision, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court\u2019s four more liberal members in saying the administration\u2019s current justification for the question \u201cseems to have been contrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s attorney general praised the decision to abandon the citizenship question.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Trump Administration may have attempted to politicize the census and punish cities and states across the nation, justice prevailed, and the census will continue to remain a tool for obtaining an accurate count of our population,\u201d said AG Letitia James.<\/p>\n

With AP<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n