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Census questionnaire. but hes got another opportunity to have the commerce department go through existing government data to determine how many citizens are in the united states. are there any, susan hennessey, legal problem with this other alternative way to determine citizenship in the united states that the president, we believe will announce? >> no, its something that hes saying they should do and administrative records match. theres nothing that presents the united states government from de...

Administration from adding a citizenship question based on their repeated representations that june 30th was the, quote, drop debt date anywhere changes to the census questionnaire. so that motion is going to be heard in federal court in about a week and a half. theres pending proceedings in the federal court in maryland about whether or not this attempt by the administration was motivated by a desire to weaken the political influence of hispanic communities. yes, i think if the administration d...

Year the way the trump administration has tried to do here. and i think its related to a key representation that the trump administration has been relying on throughout this entire litigation which is that to the census form cant occur after june 30th a date thats already passed. the trump administration used that representation to convince the supreme court to hear this case on an expedited basis. now theyre coming back and saying well even though that june 30th deadline is past, were still con...

Also susan page. and also back with me harry litman. can you understand why some justice department lawyers would want off this case? >> absolutely. especially for the career justice department employees, but everyone for the employpoli appointed ones. they represented that they would be moving forward with printing the census questionnaire without the citizenship question. and that is a very tall order when you are an attorney, you are really -- you have an obligation to the court to be 407 hon...

Years apart from the previous one next year in 2020. >> right. >> what happens if the president tries to do that and potentially delayed this? >> if theres more delay we know it will be more expensive. trying to add an addendum to the questionnaire is noncommonsensical and illogical. this is the first time were seeing the executive branch really challenge the judicial branch which the supreme court said were going to send this to a lower court so you can find another rational and until then we s...

Clear that says person should be counted, not citizens. theres an you wiulterior motiv which is to decrease participation of immigrant communities through fear. if they dont stand up and be counted, then they get less representation, communities dont get their fair share of resources and the president doesnt seem to want to listen to the supreme court. the supreme court said the reasoning was false. you know, the folks at the department of justice seemed to concede and say, okay, were going to g...

They said the census questionnaire was being printed without the question, one lawyer said the justice department was instructed to examine whether there was a path forward that would allow the administration to include the question on the census. one of the doj lawyers said they believed there could be a legally available path under the supreme court decision. the judge told them this. "if you were i read a press release telling me something else, i would demar in court with you the next time. ...

♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> >> jon: trump administrations efforts to get a citizenship question on the census. we want to wish you a happy independence day as america celebrates its 243rd birthday. >> alicia: im alicia acuna. the census questionnaire was being printed without the controversial question after the supreme court blocked it in a ruling last week. president trump insisting the issue is not settled. tweeting so important for our country that the very simple and basi...

When his own administration through the department of commerce and the department of justice said no, they were going ahead with printing the census without that question, today president trump tweeted his displeasure and then we learned from some court transcripts that have just come out that a federal judge saw the presidents tweet and felt that the justice department had represented a different position in court. so now we understand the justice department based on this transcript is saying t...

Conservative justices wrote and there are five of them on the court, it looks like the question is going to wind up on the surveys. its also worth, everything is controversial in this case, including the deadline. because one version of the deadline is that its july 1st, but another version of the deadline is that its october. so its not necessarily the case that judge fuhrman in new york needs to resolve this by next week. >> but jeffrey -- >> theres also another version of the facts here that ...