7-27-2018
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The fight over a citizenship question on the 2020 Census continues.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued a statement Thursday after a New York judge rejected the Trump Administration’s attempt to dismiss Ferguson’s multi-state lawsuit about the question of citizenship status in the U.S. 2020 Census.
Ferguson said, “This illegal decision by the Trump administration jeopardizes billions of federal dollars Washington receives every year and will impact our congressional representation for the next decade.”
On March 26, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, directed the Census Bureau to require information on the citizenship status of every resident in the country for the 2020 Census.
The multi-state lawsuit challenges the decision to add the question on citizenship to the 2020 Census.