ACLU Comment on Possible Trump Census Executive Action
July 11, 2019 12:00 pm
NEW YORK -- The following comment is in response to reports that President Trump may take executive action to get a citizenship question on the census after the Supreme Court blocked it.
The American Civil Liberties Union, New York Civil Liberties Union, and Arnold & Porter had successfully challenged the question on behalf of immigrants’ rights groups.
Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, said today:
“The Supreme Court has spoken. The Trump administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is unlawful. If President Trump takes executive action, we will take legal action.”
Case details:
U.S. Supreme Court
May 2020
Immigrants' Rights
Voting Rights
Department of Commerce v. New York
Whether the Secretary of Commerce’s decision to add a citizenship question to the Census was arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.
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U.S. Supreme Court
May 2020
Immigrants' Rights
Voting Rights
Department of Commerce v. New York
Whether the Secretary of Commerce’s decision to add a citizenship question to the Census was arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.