Judge Grants Sanctions Against DOJ Over Citizenship Question

Judge Grants Sanctions Against DOJ Over Citizenship Question
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with his cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, on May 19, 2020. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
The Associated Press
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A federal judge on Thursday agreed to impose financial sanctions against the Trump administration for failing to produce hundreds of documents during litigation over whether a citizenship question could be added to the 2020 census.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said in a ruling that the Trump administration’s failure to produce the documents “may well have been inadvertent, but is nevertheless unacceptable for any litigant, and particularly for the Department of Justice.”