The Trump administration is very concerned about 'probing the mental processes of a Cabinet secretary'

The 2020 census will ask respondents if they are U.S. citizens for the first time since 1950 -- unless lawsuits challenging it succeed. But the trial for those suits should be postponed, the Trump administration argued Monday, so the Supreme Court can settle another dispute: Can Cabinet secretaries be forced to testify about their decisions under oath? Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department administrates the census, has been ordered by a lower court judge to sit for a deposition about ...