A lawsuit claiming the Trump administration used a false motive to justify adding a census question that could weaken the political power of Democratic strongholds must go to trial next month, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreThe European Union’s unique treaty on borders bars Germany from requiring bus drivers to check passports and residence papers of passengers entering German territory, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
Read moreCiting facts still in dispute about the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census, a federal judge suggested Friday that another trial over the controversial Trump administration policy will likely start early next year.
Read moreJapan is set to approve legislation that would officially open the door to foreign workers to do unskilled jobs and possibly eventually become citizens.
Read moreA Florida restaurant worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was mistaken for an illegal alien from Jamaica and tossed in jail for three weeks by sheriff’s deputies who blindly followed a bungled deportation order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read moreDetermining someone’s citizenship status is a burden the government, not the individual, must bear, a Ninth Circuit panel found Thursday in a case involving a U.S. citizen stranded in Mexico.
Read moreRemarking that this is a day the Trump administration wanted to avoid, a federal judge ushered in closing arguments Tuesday morning in a case where challengers say the census is being steered to stifle Democratic political representation for the next decade.
Read moreThe federal judge overseeing a trial over census changes that could waylay Democratic voting power for the next decade slammed the government on Tuesday for what he called its “latest and strangest effort” to “halt the orderly progress of this litigation.”
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross must testify about a change he OK’d for the 2020 census that could hurt Democratic voting power for the next decade.
Read moreOver two grueling days on the witness stand, the Census Bureau’s chief scientist testified that the addition of a citizenship question to the once-in-a-decade survey would be expensive, while also compromising data and response rates.
Read moreAt Day 2 of a trial over the 2020 census, which is set for the first time in decades to include a citizenship question, New York City’s chief demographer testified Tuesday that such a change would harm social services that benefit everyone.
Read moreOpening a day before the U.S. midterm elections, a long-anticipated trial over the 2020 census kicked off Monday with a scholar warning that the addition of a citizenship question will discourage participation by Hispanics and noncitizens.
Read moreIn a flurry of activity late Friday, the Supreme Court refused to block a trial over the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census and took up five new cases for the term.
Read morePresident Donald Trump is intensifying his hardline immigration rhetoric heading into the midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of noncitizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United States.
Read moreRefusing to delay a Nov. 5 trial over the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a federal judge set the stage Friday for a showdown with Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Read moreWith the polls set to go to print in less than a year, a federal judge appeared inclined Thursday to begin a trial on Nov. 5 that will determine whether census takers can probe for citizenship in 2020 forms.
Read moreExtending a stay, the Supreme Court shielded Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday night from having to testify about why he is adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreExtending a stay, the Supreme Court shielded Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday night from having to testify about why he is adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg late Tuesday paused the Second Circuit’s approval of the deposition of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, over the the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census
Read moreUnder scrutiny for his addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed Tuesday to have the Second Circuit take deposition off the table.
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