FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump after arriving from a fund-raising event before departing for Washington D.C., at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., July 12, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's order that all federal agencies provide citizenship data to the Commerce Department could open a new legal front over whether states can redraw their voting maps based on citizenship status.
Trump dropped the effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census on Thursday following a recent defeat in the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead, he ordered other federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration, to provide relevant data.
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