July 10, 2019
A Maryland federal court on Wednesday shot down a bid by the Trump administration to make sweeping changes to the legal team handling its battle to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, just a day after a New York federal court called a similar request "patently deficient."
July 08, 2019
The Trump administration is gearing up for the next phase of its legal battle to include a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked it from going into effect last month, bringing on a new team of lawyers and weighing an executive order.
June 25, 2019
A Maryland federal judge who wants to reconsider whether the Trump administration was animated by racial discrimination when it moved to inquire about citizenship on the 2020 census can have the case sent back down to him, a split Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
June 24, 2019
New evidence paints a "disturbing picture" that the government may have been trying to discriminate against Hispanics when it planned to inquire about citizenship status on the 2020 census, a Maryland federal judge who has agreed to look at the matter a second time said Monday.
June 19, 2019
A Maryland federal judge will be reconsidering whether the Trump administration was trying to discriminate against Hispanic voters when it moved to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, after he ruled Wednesday to set aside his previous judgment based on new evidence.
June 18, 2019
A Maryland federal judge said Tuesday he would need some rest before deciding whether to put aside, based on new evidence, his previous judgment in a challenge to the Trump administration's plans to add a question to the 2020 census about citizenship.
April 05, 2019
A Maryland federal judge on Friday became the third jurist to rule that the Trump administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the U.S. Constitution by including a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census, although he stopped short of finding that the government intended to discriminate against noncitizens.
January 29, 2019
The U.S. government disputed a group of advocacy organizations and individuals' claims that adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census would harm minority areas, putting a testifying expert in economics on the stand Tuesday in Maryland federal court to bolster its case.
January 22, 2019
A group of advocacy organizations and individuals lambasted the Trump administration's plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, putting census experts and an immigrant rights advocate on the stand Tuesday in Maryland federal court to detail the harm the move would cause.
December 20, 2018
A Maryland federal judge has paved the way for two challenges to the Trump administration's plans to add a citizenship question to the upcoming decennial census to head to trial together next month.