Federal Judge permanently blocks Trump from adding citizenship question to the census

  There was talk that Donald Trump was going to use an Executive Order to add the citizenship question to the census, however a few days ago he announced he was giving up the fight to add the question and would get the information he was seeking by other means.

  Apparently this assurance was not good enough for a Federal Judge in New York because today he permanently blocked the citizenship question from the census and warned the President he was watching. Here is more:

A New York federal judge has issued an order definitively blocking the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in any form, despite the administration’s insistence it has abandoned plans to add a question on the census.

Judge Jesse Furman, in his two-page order, also indicated the seriousness with which the court will continue to monitor this controversial issue, saying,”The Court will retain jurisdiction in this case to enforce the terms of this Order until the 2020 census results are processed and sent to the President by December 31, 2020.”

  According to the article I linked to above the Trump administration notified the courts last week that the President was dropping his challenge and would not pursue adding the question to the census so it looks like Judge Furman was trying to play tough guy and decided he would flex his muscles on an issue which was already decided.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium