Trump has officially backed down from his census fight
currently being offered up. The president went rogue July 3 by declaring news reports saying the question would not be included in the census “FAKE!”—a move that DOJ lawyersaid was “the first I had heard of the president’s position on this issue”—and sent the administration scrambling over the July Fourth weekend to find a way to include the question.
The administration insisted, naturally, that the decision to give up the fight was one borne out of timing more so than a willingness to admit defeat, as they believed they would not be able to wrap up the legal proceedings without the census getting delayed. “Put simply, the impediment was a logistical impediment, not a legal one,” Attorney Generalsaid. “We simply cannot complete the litigation in time to carry out the census.
While the Trump camp tried hard to paint their retreat in noble terms and insist that Trump was taking decisive action through his executive order—“Congratulations again, Mr. President, on taking this effective action,” Barr told Trump during the news conference—Trump's action isn't actually at all revolutionary.
. “The government already has access to all of this citizenship data through administrative records, and already studies it. Trump just didn’t want to admit defeat.”Trump's critics have already embraced the citizenship announcement as a win for civil rights and a blistering admission of the president's own failing.
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