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    Jeff Sessions Told DOJ Not To Discuss Citizenship Question Alternatives

    After receiving a Justice Department request for a new 2020 census question, the Census Bureau came up with another way to generate more accurate citizenship data. The DOJ refused to meet about it.
    by Hansi Lo Wang Oct 27, 2018 5 minutes
    U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (left) and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore (right) attend an April event at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. Gore testified that Sessions directed the DOJ not to discuss alternatives to the 2020 census citizenship question with the Census Bureau.

    The Trump administration is fending off six lawsuits across the country over a citizenship question that was added to the 2020 census for, officials insist, one primary reason — to get better data on who in the country is and isn't a U.S. citizen.

    Last December, the Justice Department sent a letter to the Census Bureau asking for the hotly contested question to be included on forms for the upcoming national head count. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the census, ultimately responded in March by approving plans to add the question.

    But days after the Census Bureau received the Justice Department's request, its staff concluded that collecting people's self-reported information through the census would not be the best way to generate better citizenship data. Instead,, would not only produce more accurate information but also cost less money.

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