The census citizenship-question stunt is still collapsing under its own weight
The Trump administration’s fight over the census citizenship question had already hit a wall earlier in July, and by this point the whole episode stood as a textbook example of overreach. After months of legal defeats and public contradiction, the administration had backed off the central push, even as Trump kept trying to salvage something from the wreckage. The result was a self-inflicted defeat that looked, to critics, like an attempt to weaponize the census against immigrant communities and then pretend the plan had always been about data hygiene.
The Trump administration’s fight over the census citizenship question had already hit a wall earlier in July, and by this point the whole episode stood as a textbook example of overreach. After months of legal defeats and public contradiction, the administration had backed off the central push, even as Trump kept trying to salvage something from the wreckage. The result was a self-inflicted defeat that looked, to cr…
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