{"id":65376,"date":"2019-07-07T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=65376"},"modified":"2019-07-07T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:51:41","slug":"trump-presses-for-citizenship-question-mulls-legal-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/trump-presses-for-citizenship-question-mulls-legal-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump presses for citizenship question, mulls legal options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Justice Department says it will press its search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, hours after President Donald Trump said he was \u201cvery seriously\u201d considering an executive order to get the question on the form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administration\u2019s focus on asking broadly about citizenship for the first time since 1950 reflects the enormous political stakes and potential costs in the once-a-decade population count that determines the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives for the next 10 years and the distribution of some $675 billion in federal spending. It also reflects Trump\u2019s interest in reshaping how congressional districts are drawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said on Friday his administration was exploring a number of legal options, but the Justice Department did not say exactly what options remained now that the Supreme Court had barred the question at least temporarily.<br>The Census Bureau\u2019s own experts have said a citizenship question would discourage immigrants from participating in the survey and result in a less accurate census that would redistribute money and political power away from Democratic-led cities where immigrants tend to cluster to whiter, rural areas where Republicans do well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department says it will press its search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65378,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376\/revisions\/65378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}