States, Cities Sue U.S. Over Census Question
Seventeen states, the District of Columbia and six cities say a plan to add a query about citizenship status to the census form is unconstitutional.NEW YORK—Seventeen states, the District of Columbia and six cities sued the U.S. government Tuesday, saying a plan to add a citizenship demand to the census questionnaire is unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.
The lawsuit said adding the citizenship demand to the 2020 census questionnaire was an arbitrary decision that will “fatally undermine the accuracy of the population count.”
A government spokesman did not immediately comment on the filing.
Several states already have joined a separate lawsuit filed by California’s attorney general last week that seeks to block the citizenship question from being added to the census questionnaire.
New York Attorney General Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the new lawsuit.
The NAACP says the plans for the census will lead to a massive undercounting of blacks.
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