Justices last week confronted the White House’s false justification for its illegal and racist motive in trying to add the question, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout In a surprise decision, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the four liberal members…Read more →
NEW YORK — Not content with intimidating Hispanic-named people with a loaded citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census, Republican President Donald Trump – 10 days before his Commerce Department announced its decision – used his approval of the query as a tactic to raise campaign cash.
Trump then repeated his boast in yet another fundraising letter the day before Commerce added the question to the census, an updated lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan against Trump’s agency reveals.
