Opinion | How to Put Citizenship Back in the Census

From wsjopinion: Trump can use the 14th Amendment to restore the citizenship question to the census despite the Supreme Court, write DavidRivkin and Gilson B. Gray

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will attempt to add a citizenship question on the 2020 census while complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York.

Five justices held that the Census Act allows the question, but a separate five-justice majority found the rulemaking that added the question was procedurally deficient. There is a way forward. The Constitution itself requires the collection of citizenship information.

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