SAN FRANCISCO — A trial will begin Monday in federal court in San Francisco over the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. Seeborg is presiding over lawsuits by California and numerous cities in the state that argue the citizenship question was politically motivated and would discourage immigrants and Latinos from participating in the Census. Data from the Census are used to determine the distribution of Congressional seats to states and billions of dollars in federal funding. The lawsuits want Seeborg to keep the citizenship question off the Census. They plan to use testimony from academics to support their claim that the citizenship question would result in a costly undercount.

Source: National Post January 07, 2019 05:48 UTC