Saturday's Headlines: As lawyers step up census efforts, Trump considers executive order

The Fix: Did Trump mean to bring up redistricting in his census remarks?; Analysis: The staggering scale of printing questionnaires for the 2020 Census

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As lawyers step up census efforts, Trump considers executive order The Supreme Court has called the administration's rationale for the citizenship question "contrived," and said the government could not go forward without a solid justification. By Tara Bahrampour and John Wagner · Read more The Fix: Did Trump mean to bring up redistricting in his census remarks? Trump told reporters that the question is needed for "districting" -- which is exactly the argument its opponents have made. By Aaron Blake · Read more   Analysis: The staggering scale of printing questionnaires for the 2020 Census More than 2 billion sheets of paper need to be printed between now and the start of the census. By Philip Bump · Read more   CBP officials knew about derogatory Facebook group and have investigated posts Even though some in U.S. Customs and Border Protection have known about the group since 2016, officials do not conduct regular monitoring of private pages. By Reis Thebault and Nick Miroff · Read more   Carnage at migrant center in Libya highlights peril for those blocked from Europe An airstrike shattered a detention camp near Tripoli, killing at least 53 people. Many of the migrants have escaped conflicts, political repression, ethnic pogroms and poverty in their homelands only to be caught up in someone else's war. By Sudarsan Raghavan · Read more   Police called after girl, 7, brings fake money to school, raising questions about school discipline Some see the episode, and a similar one this spring, as evidence of a broader problem: Student missteps are too often handled harshly or criminalized. By Donna St. George · Read more     ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions Race is becoming a pivotal issue among the Democratic candidates By Kathleen Parker · Read more Choosing subcontractors based on politics seems to be acceptable in D.C. By Colbert King · Read more Global warming led to scorching heat in Europe. Take it seriously. By Editorial Board · Read more The Democratic candidates aren't making any sense By George Will · Read more When a newspaper folds, we lose. That's especially true in Youngstown, Ohio. By Denise Dick · Read more Mad magazine's demise is part of the ending of a world By David Von Drehle · Read more   ADVERTISEMENT   More News Southern California reels from magnitude 7.1 quake An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has jolted Southern California, but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries. By John Antczak | AP · Read more   Kawhi Leonard picks Clippers and partnership with Paul George, stunning Raptors and Lakers Leonard, the crown jewel of the NBA's 2019 free agency class, will reportedly be joined by all-star forward Paul George, who will reportedly arrive to the Clippers via a blockbuster trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder. By Ben Golliver · Read more   Greek elections are expected to bring a populist experiment to an end Sunday's elections are expected to award a decisive victory to the same center-right party that held power before a band of radical leftists took over in 2015. By Michael Birnbaum · Read more   Analysis The problem with Trump's Revolutionary War airports isn't the airports President Trump's general refusal to admit mistakes raises a key question: Does he do the same thing in conversations with other world leaders, doubling-down on errors rather than admitting to one? How far does his reflexive self-defense extend? By Philip Bump · Read more   U.S. tennis prodigy Cori 'Coco' Gauff, 15, reaches Wimbledon round of 16 Gauff — the youngest player to qualify for the Wimbledon main draw in the modern age — won a 32-stroke tiebreaker in the second set en route to a 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 win against Polona Hercog on Centre Court. By William Booth · Read more   Perspective All eight Spider-Man movies, ranked from worst to best Where does the newly released "Spider-Man: Far From Home" rank in the wall-crawler's cinematic library? By David Betancourt · Read more   Trump says he doesn't know if his clubs still have undocumented workers President Trump's eldest sons, Don Jr. and Eric, have taken over management of the Trump Organization while their father is president. By Colby Itkowitz · Read more   N.H. police say they knew of no threat that would cause Pence to cancel trip President Trump on Friday told reporters that there was "a very interesting problem that they had in New Hampshire, but I can't tell you about it." By Colby Itkowitz · Read more   Perspective Why are so many 8th-graders taking AP Calculus at this school district? School officials usually want moms and dads to butt out of curriculum decisions. But parents designed the Pasadena, Calif. program known as the Math Academy. By Jay Mathews · Read more   By The Way | A Post Travel Destination Thousands of vacations canceled after mechanical failure on cruise ship More than 2,000 Norwegian Cruise Line passengers were stuck in Barcelona this week because of mechanical issues. By Natalie Compton · Read more   Post Reports | Listen Now Keeping the music on: How go-go became the center of D.C.'s gentrification battle Marissa Lang on how a D.C. store's booming go-go beats became a focus of Washington's gentrification dilemma. And Sally Jenkins explains what she believes is the first truly woman-powered franchise in sports history. By The Washington Post · Read more

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