Trump responds to Supreme Court census citizenship question: ‘Delay the Census’

Published June 27, 2019 6:15pm ET



President Trump called “totally ridiculous” the Supreme Court delivering a blow to his administration’s census citizenship.

“Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census, in this case for 2020,” Trump said Thursday on Twitter. “I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the United States Supreme Court is given additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on this very critical matter. Can anyone really believe that as a great Country, we are not able the ask whether or not someone is a Citizen. Only in America!”

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