Politics Trump Expected To Renew Push For Census Citizenship Question With Executive Action After the Supreme Court ruled to keep a citizenship question off forms for the upcoming national head count, the Trump administration is now trying to add the question by taking executive action. Hansi Lo Wang Franco Ordoñez
National How The Fight Over The Census Citizenship Question Could Rage On President Trump threatened to delay next year's constitutionally mandated head count hours after the Supreme Court ruled to keep a citizenship question off 2020 census forms for now. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Supreme Court Leaves Citizenship Question Blocked For Now From 2020 Census The decision comes more than a year after the Trump administration announced plans to include on forms for the national head count the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" Nina Totenberg Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Supreme Court Justices Split Along Unexpected Lines In 3 Cases The court decided four cases Monday, and three defied the usual ideological fissures. Nina Totenberg
Politics GOP Redistricting Strategist Played Role In Push For Census Citizenship Question A deceased redistricting specialist's documents suggest the citizenship question was added to redraw political maps to favor Republicans and non-Hispanic white people, according to a new court filing. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Trump's Proposed Census Citizenship Question Bucks Centuries Of Precedent Never before has the U.S. census directly asked for the citizenship status of every person living in every household. The question the Trump administration wants on the 2020 census could change that. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Companies That Rely On Census Data Worry Citizenship Question Will Hurt Lyft and Univision are among the critics of the citizenship question the Trump administration wants on the 2020 census. The businesses say it could harm the national head count and their bottom line. Hansi Lo Wang
National 2020 Census To Be Hand Delivered In Disaster Recovery Areas The Census Bureau is planning to send workers to personally visit every household in Paradise, Calif., Mexico Beach, Fla., and Puerto Rico, which are still recovering from wildfire and hurricanes. Hansi Lo Wang
Politics Census Bureau Must Be 'Totally Objective' On Citizenship Question, Director Says Responding to President Trump's tweet defending the controversial question, Steven Dillingham says his job will be "to conduct a census whether the question's in there or if it isn't." Hansi Lo Wang
Politics What You Need To Know About The 2020 Census Why is the census citizenship question controversial? When does the count officially start? NPR answers questions about the national head count required by the U.S. Constitution once a decade. Hansi Lo Wang