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    Trump Officials Face Cover-Up Allegations After Failed Citizenship Question Push

    Challengers of the Trump administration's push for a census citizenship question are asking a federal judge in New York to impose penalties for allegedly false or misleading statements by officials.
    by Hansi Lo Wang Jul 16, 2019 4 minutes
    Former acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights John Gore speaks at the Justice Department in 2018 in Washington, D.C. Gore and other Trump administration officials are accused of providing false or misleading statements about the origins of a citizenship question they tried to get on the 2020 census.

    Days after President Trump announced he's no longer pushing for a citizenship question on the 2020 census, officials in his administration are now facing allegations of covering up the question's origins.

    Challengers of the question filed a formal request Tuesday for U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of New York to consider imposing penalties on the Trump administration for allegedly providing false or misleading statements as part of the multiple lawsuits over the question, which was originally approved by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

    Administration officials allegedly engaged in conduct that is "nothing less than a fraud on the Court," plaintiffs' attorneys with the ACLU, New York Civil Liberties

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