WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to demand citizenship details from all respondents in next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the information using existing databases. "It is essential that we have a clear breakdown of the number of citizens and non-citizens...
AG Barr Sees Legal Way to Ask About Citizenship on Census
EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Attorney General William Barr said Monday he sees a way to legally require 2020 census respondents to declare whether or not they are citizens, despite a Supreme Court ruling that forbade asking the question. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Trump administration will...
2020 Census Moving Forward Without Citizenship Question
The Justice Department said Tuesday the 2020 Census is moving ahead without a question about citizenship. Kristen Clarke, an attorney for a civil rights group that helped fight the addition of the question, said Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits that the printing of the hundreds of millions of...
Court Blocks Census Citizenship Question. Is Trump Out of Time?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday maintained a hold on the Trump administration's effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, and the question's opponents say there's no time to revisit the issue before next week's scheduled start to the printing of census forms. There was no word...
Supreme Court Won't Block Political Districts Drawn for Partisan Gain
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says federal courts have no role to play in policing political districts drawn for partisan gain. The decision could embolden political line-drawing for partisan gain when state lawmakers undertake the next round of redistricting following the 2020 census. The justices said by a 5-4 vote...
Immigrant-Heavy GOP States OK with Census Citizen Question
PHOENIX — It's not just Democratic-leaning states at risk of losing federal money and clout in Congress if the Supreme Court says the upcoming census can include a citizenship question. Fast-growing Arizona, Florida and Texas all have large groups of immigrants, especially Hispanics, who might choose to sit out the...
State Elections Chief On Ballot Harvesting and Age 17 Voting
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla wants to make voting easier for everyone. He visited Fresno last month, pushing the Voters Choice Act. Fresno County will implement the system starting next year. The act expands the days that polls are open before an election, sends vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters...
Judge Bars Citizenship Question From 2020 Census
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York has barred the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said Tuesday that while such a question would be constitutional, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had added it arbitrarily and not...
Take 5: Congressman Lieu on Valley Ag, Trump Impeachment
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration. Take 5 met Lieu during his "Adopt-a-District" town hall Thursday night (April 5) at Clovis West High School in Fresno. Topics Covered in Take 5 Video We asked Lieu his thoughts on: — Valley agriculture, and how President...