Decennial Questionnaire News Today

The reason we reported it last night is they put it in writing to the court. "counsel, we can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 decennial questionnaire without a citizenship question and the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process. signed u.s. department of justice civil division. civil division at the justice department is now run by jody hunt, jeff sessions former chief of staff. as of last night, this is how the justice department had left it. they ar...

Last night on the show, we reported that the justice department had conceded basically that they lost that case. its over. they had told the court already over the course of the litigation on this issue that they were up against a hard deadline. that they needed to start printing the census by july 1st which was monday of this week. even though they might have tried to, they might have wanted to go back to court again and come up with a new justification for adding the question in some other way...

That they needed to start actually printing the census by july 1st, which was monday of this week. and so, even though they might have tried to, they might have wanted to go back to the court again and come up with some new justification for adding this question some other way, frankly, theyre out of time. and so, they notified the court that they were giving up on trying to do this for the 2020 census. they were starting to print the census already without tacking on that extra question. they d...