Nancy Pelosi: Adding citizenship question to census violates the Constitution

Published March 27, 2018 3:03pm ET



Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Tuesday President Trump’s decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census is in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

“The Trump administration’s late night announcement of a new citizenship question violates the clear constitutional mandate to provide an accurate count of all people living in the United States,” Pelosi argued in a statement.

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