Trump Officials Prepared For Supreme Court Fight Over Census Question
Secretary Wilbur Ross warned Commerce officials that they should be "very careful" about "everything" when adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Updated 12:20 p.m. ET
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and his staff prepared to embark on a legal fight that would take them to the highest court in the U.S. long before announcing his controversial decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
"Since this issue will go to the Supreme Court we need to be diligent in preparing the administrative record," Commerce Department official Earl Comstock wrote to Ross in an Aug. 9, 2017 email about preparing a memo and briefing for the commerce secretary on.
