Trump Administration to Ask Supreme Court to Decide Census Dispute

Trump Administration to Ask Supreme Court to Decide Census Dispute
President Donald Trump announces the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) as U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross looks on during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, on Oct. 1, 2018. Leah Millis/Reuters File Photo
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s administration said on Jan. 22, it will urge the Supreme Court to rule by the end of its term in June on a bid to implement a plan, blocked by a judge, to ask people in the 2020 national census whether they are U.S. citizens.