Administration Admits Minorities Might not Respond to Census
The current "political environment" is so toxic that a large number of minorities may not reply to the 2020 Census, the Trump administration admitted in court Thursday, even without the addition of a controversial question asking about citizenship status. Justice Department attorney Josh Gardner was arguing that critics of the proposed question had not proven definitively that the question itself, rather than the nation's political discourse, would drive non-responses -- which both sides acknowledged were likely. "That has nothing to do with the citizenship question per se," Gardner told a [...]