NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Can the census ask if you're a citizen? Here's what's at stake in the Supreme Court battle over the 2020 census

  • Written by Jonathan Entin, Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
Citizenship may be included in the next census questionnaire.Maria Dryfhout/shutterstock.com

For the first time in decades, the 2020 census might include a question asking whether or not each counted person is a citizen.

When Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross directed that the 2020 census include that question, he claimed that it was necessary to...

Read more: Can the census ask if you're a citizen? Here's what's at stake in the Supreme Court battle over...

More Articles ...

  1. Qué piensan realmente los hispanos acerca de Trump
  2. What happens when a big business tries to take over and rename a neighborhood
  3. How 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' inspired the cathedral's 19th-century revival
  4. Did Trump obstruct justice? 5 questions Congress must answer
  5. How artificial intelligence systems could threaten democracy
  6. Will Netflix eventually monetize its user data?
  7. 'You're unallocated!' and other BS companies use to obscure reality
  8. 5 things to consider before you hire a tutor for your child
  9. Who are Sri Lanka's Christians?
  10. To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global Deal for Nature
  11. Bringing the border closer to home, one immersion trip at a time
  12. Why political meddling with central banks is a terrible idea – and the Federal Reserve is no exception
  13. War games shed light on real-world strategies
  14. When is dead really dead? Study on pig brains reinforces that death is a vast gray area
  15. Mueller report: How Congress can and will follow up on an incomplete and redacted document
  16. What happens next with the Mueller report? 3 essential reads
  17. A comedian who played a president on TV might actually become Ukraine's president
  18. A comedian who played a president on TV just became Ukraine's president
  19. Trump declares economic war on Cuba
  20. If my measles shot was years ago, am I still protected? 5 questions answered
  21. Bolsonaro's approval rating is worse than any past Brazilian president at the 100-day mark
  22. Brain scans help shed light on the PTSD brain, but they cannot diagnose PTSD
  23. As governments adopt artificial intelligence, there's little oversight and lots of danger
  24. Notre Dame's history is 9 centuries of change, renovation and renewal
  25. How Columbine became a blueprint for school shooters
  26. New cholesterol study may lead you to ask: Pass the eggs, or pass on the eggs?
  27. Should you apply to a college that has had a recent scandal?
  28. One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control
  29. Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch
  30. Why Pete Buttigieg may be reviving progressive ideals of the Social Gospel Movement
  31. Russia isn't the first country to protest Western control over global telecommunications
  32. Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them help slow climate change?
  33. The new digital divide is between people who opt out of algorithms and people who don't
  34. A political stalemate over Puerto Rican aid is leaving all US disaster funding in limbo
  35. In Notre Dame fire, echoes of the 1837 blaze that destroyed Russia's Winter Palace
  36. The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
  37. Boeing crashes and Uber collision show passenger safety relies on corporate promises, not regulators' tests
  38. What it means to ‘know your audience’ when communicating about science
  39. Journalism's Assange problem
  40. Marijuana legalization – a rare issue where women are more conservative than men
  41. How Hispanics really feel about Trump
  42. Brunei wants to punish gay sex with death by stoning – can boycotts stop it?
  43. Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed
  44. Top EPA advisers challenge long-standing air pollution science, threatening Americans' health
  45. A frenemy fungus provides clues about a new deadly one
  46. April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for tobacco illnesses, but is it enough?
  47. Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here's how workers can tell if they'll be replaced
  48. Mapping the US counties where traffic air pollution hurts children the most
  49. Leonardo joined art with engineering
  50. How the alt-right corrupts the Constitution