BREAKING: Trump is going to force citizenship question into Census. Or not.

[brooklynite]

Trump Turns to Executive Action to Press Citizenship Question on Census

WASHINGTON — President Trump is planning to take another step in his ongoing battle to place a question about citizenship on the 2020 census by announcing an executive action in the Rose Garden on Thursday, according to a senior administration official familiar with the decision.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/us/politics/census-executive-action.html

Trump expected to end his fight to add citizenship question to census, sources say

President Donald Trump is expected to announce later Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to survey the American public on the question through other means, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-expected-end-fight-add-citizenship-question-census/story

[Roland99]

1. "Other means"???

[davsand]

3. "Show me your papers!" might become the new common phrase if he has his way. n/t

[RKP5637]

7. Well, if tRump is asking, it will be show me your _____! n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Hopefully holding his breath for two months.

[RKP5637]

6. Oh, a Fox News poll!

[Blue Owl]

2. Can't do anything without forcing himself onto something/someone

n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. So....half-assed despotism then? nt

[C_U_L8R]

8. So... a non-census census.

Will it have a forced oath of allegiance to Trump too?

[OnDoutside]

9. Maybe he can have a tollgate like they had in Blazing Saddles ?

[Initech]

13. Somebody needs to go back and get a shitload of dimes!!!

[OnDoutside]

21. Yes ! Or you could modify it as asking "Are you a citizen ?" before you can go through the gate !

[Mme. Defarge]

10. So what?

It cannot take the place of the census. This sounds like a face saving stunt.

[samnsara]

11. doesnt matter..im lyin' on the form anyway

[Demovictory9]

12. he loves the chaos and attention

[Arazi]

14. I've been waiting for the Rose Garden announcement all day, bracing for a true Constitutional crisis

If the orange #Traitor has decided to back down I'll be truly grateful

[budkin]

15. He knows that it's over for the GOP if the question is not on there.

It's been made clear to him, thus the desperation...

[MFGsunny]

16. See below for working link to the abc story in OP

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-expected-end-fight-add-citizenship-question-census/story?id=64262805

[underpants]

17. Another pumpfake/failure

Clustertrump

[Botany]

18. Aren't the forms already printed?

n/t

[Downtown Hound]

19. It's nothing more than a fantasy of his, at this point

He CAN'T override the Supreme Court on this, no matter how hard he may try. And if he ever does try, the House Dems will simply defund the whole Census project.

It's a lost cause for Trump.

[doc03]

20. He will do it like everything else and Democrats

sue but he will still get it in before it makes it through our f---d up legal system