{"id":55843,"date":"2018-03-27T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=55843"},"modified":"2018-03-27T06:12:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:12:07","slug":"attorney-general-becerra-secretary-of-state-padilla-to-announce-lawsuit-over-trump-administrations-unconstitutional-decision-to-add-citizenship-question-on-2020-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=55843","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Becerra, Secretary of State Padilla to Announce Lawsuit over Trump Administration\u2019s Unconstitutional Decision to Add Citizenship Question on 2020 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will hold a press conference\u00a0tomorrow<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at\u00a011:00 am PT<\/span><\/span>\/2:00 pm ET to announce a lawsuit over the Trump Administration\u2019s unconstitutional decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census questionnaire. Hours ago, the U.S. Census Bureau\u00a0announced the addition<\/a>, incorrectly contending that the addition would \u201chelp enforce the Voting Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Attorney General Becerra has been a vocal opponent of the Trump Administration\u2019s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau questionnaire. On February 12, 2018, he co-led a coalition of 19 Attorneys General in\u00a0sending a letter<\/a>\u00a0to Secretary Ross cautioning that a citizenship question would violate the U.S. Constitution and federal statutes. Earlier today, Attorney General Becerra \u2013 along with Secretary of State Alex Padilla \u2013 published an\u00a0op-ed in the\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/a>\u00a0highlighting how high the stakes are for California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will hold a press conference\u00a0tomorrow\u00a0at\u00a011:00 am PT\/2:00 pm ET to announce a lawsuit over the Trump Administration\u2019s unconstitutional decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census questionnaire. Hours ago, the U.S. Census Bureau\u00a0announced the addition, incorrectly contending that the addition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Xavier_Becerra_official_portrait_as_attorney_general_of_California.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}