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om Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, joins MSNBC's MTP Daily to discuss the citizenship question being added to the 2020 census. Guest host Katy Tur asked Perez shouldn't it matter who is a citizen of this country, in terms of representation, and who is not. Perez said trying to figure out who and who is not a citizen is a "scare tactic" and called it "voter suppression" to only county U.S. citizens in the census. He said not counting non-citizens will hurt "funding formulas." (snip) They want to change it to count the number of U.S. citizens so...

The Trump administration announced Monday night it will be reinstating a citizenship question to the decennial census in 2020, prompting threats of lawsuits by prominent Democrats. Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra separately announced they will file respective lawsuits to stop the citizenship question from being asked during the census. Holder’s statement called the move by the Trump administration a “direct attack on our representative democracy.” Becerra called the decision, “illegal.” The Commerce Department, which oversees the census, issued a statement announcing the decision: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question...

Video:Tucker Carlson said the political left loudly objected to the return of a question in the U.S. census that asks about citizenship status. Carlson reminded the audience that the main point of the census is to apportion congressional districts. "The left came close to losing consciousness today," Carlson said, after Secretary Wilbur Ross and the Commerce Department announced their 2020 census would again ask about citizenship status. The question was absent from the 2010 census and was a fixture on the form from 1820 to 1950.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio departed from his Miami colleagues Tuesday and said the decision by Commerce Secretary Ross on Monday to include a citizenship question in the 2020 Census is, essentially, no big deal. “I personally don’t see the problem with it,″ Rubio told reporters at a “pen and pad” briefing in Tallahassee Tuesday. “I think there’s a lot of noise being made about it.” Rubio’s comments diverge from the opinion of other members of Congress from South Florida who have said they fear some people could be dissuaded from answering the census if the citizenship question is asked. It...