Trump’s fight for citizenship question on census not over

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The Trump administration has not yet given up on adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, even though the process of printing the forms is underway and the Justice and Commerce departments have already conceded defeat.

In one of a few legal cases related to the citizenship question, Judge George Hazel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland set up a conference call in response to a tweet from President Trump disputing the case was closed, during which a DOJ lawyer said they have received instructions from the White House to find a way around a Supreme Court ruling.

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