US President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would drop efforts to include a citizenship question on the official 2020 census but issued an executive order to obtain data specific to citizenship and non-citizenship status for those living in the US by alternative means.
The US Supreme Court ruled in June that while the government is not inherently barred from including a citizenship question on the constitutionally mandated census, the government failed to give a reasonable explanation for the inclusion of the question. Less than a week later, the Department of Justice said it would explore new ways to ask the controversial question.
