Trump administration denies deceit in census citizenship fight

The Trump administration denied accusations that it concealed evidence that its plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census was aimed at boosting Republicans’ electoral power, and said its accusers were making up a conspiracy theory. In a letter to Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, who in January blocked the citizenship question from being used on the decennial census, the government called the allegations an “eleventh-hour campaign to improperly derail the Supreme Court’s resolution of the government’s appeal.” The conservative-majority Supreme Court is due to issue a ruling by the end of June on whether the question can be added in time for next year’s census.