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The Story: On Tuesday, August 4, Republican Party voters in Kansas selected Roger Marshall, a physician and a staunchly pro-Trump figure, to run for the...

The Story: Kris Kobach continues to lead in the polling for Kansas' Republican primary for the US Senate seat slated to be filled this year....

The Story: The much-watched race to replace Pat Roberts, a Republican who has represented Kansas in the US Senate for 24 years, has heated up....

The Story: The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, declines to be pinned down on the question of whether he will, at some point in...

CNN's Chris Cuomo is surprised by Republican Senate hopeful Kris Kobach's answer to whether he would support President Trump if he admitted that he was a racist. #CNN #News

The government plans to ask people taking part in the 2020 national census if they are US citizens – and the supreme court appears to be leaning in favor of approval. The census is conducted every 10 years to count the people living in the US. The states argue the plan is unconstitutional. The commerce department, which is in charge of the census, says it decided to add the question at the request of the justice department, which argued it was necessary to help enforce the Voting Rights Act. “Yesterday, the Supreme Court took up the Census Citizenship question, a really big deal. The citizenship question was on every census between 1890 and 1950, but has not been on the standard census form since then. Currently, the government gets citizenship data from the American Community Survey, which is done every year but only goes out to a small number of US households. Three lower courts, in New York, California and Maryland, have ruled against the plan. Two of the judges said that asking about citizenship would be unconstitutional, violating the provision that says the census must fully enumerate people living in the United States. A majority of the justices appeared to be leaning toward approving the question during arguments on Tuesday.

Early but informed speculation has it that Kathleen Sebelius, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Obama who became linked in the public mind, and in constitutional litigation, to the issues raised by the "Obamacare" reform, may well run for a seat in the US Senate from Kansas in 2020.

Greenbelt, Maryland (CNN)The current "political environment" is so toxic that a large number of minorities may not reply to the 2020 Census, the Trump administration admitted in court Thursday, even without the addition of a controversial question asking about citizenship status. "That has nothing to do with the citizenship question per se," Gardner told a federal court in Maryland. "They may be less inclined to trust the government" or the Trump administration. Judge George Hazel probed Gardner's logic to see if he was conceding a key argument for the plaintiffs who want the question nixed: that the citizenship question would contribute to a less accurate count and the resulting disenfranchisement. "It seems like the macro environment is going to exacerbate the impact of the citizenship question," Hazel said. At the end of the day, it's entirely possible that the plaintiffs will be right," Gardner said. But it's also possible, he added, that "the macro environment is just so challenging" that minorities and non-citizens would not respond anyway. "Secretary Ross was a banker and the notion that he came up with this on his own is preposterous," said Denise Hulett, an attorney representing the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, one of the plaintiffs. Gardner, the government attorney, said conversations about the issue were a normal part of the policy-making process, and that Ross had ultimately and reasonably decided to include the question based on a request from the Justice Department. Judge Hazel appeared to bristle at a suggestion he wait for the Supreme Court to decide a separate lawsuit over the citizenship question before issuing his ruling.

OPINION — Donald Trump is a celebrity president, more interested in declaring a “great victory” after the 2018 midterms than in vowing to bring the country together. When asked about the violent episodes that shook America in the weeks before Nov. 6 and whether he should soften his tone, he boasted about the economy, said he was “sad” to see the violence, and then talked about his great relationship with Israel. The president did say he doesn’t much like the dangerous and deadly white supremacist movement law enforcement admits it is unprepared for, though he revealed no plans to combat that particular problem, one that worries many Americans, especially those in its crosshairs. Was anyone surprised? This has always been the president, the one everyone knew would spin the GOP loss of the House as a win, with a promise to maybe cooperate with Democrats clouded by a threat to hit back if he feels singed by their investigations. And that doesn’t seem to be a concern for the country’s leader, as he lists off the Republicans who won and the Democrats they defeated, or as he gloats over the Republicans who resisted his embrace and lost. Get Roll Call in your inbox Identity politics? Those actions, mimicked by candidates down the ballot, have solidified the GOP base of white men — the identity that has come to define the party, many of them angry despite being in charge of pretty much everything through history. Robocalls by a laughable Oprah impersonator plagued the Stacey Abrams campaign after Winfrey herself endorsed the Georgia Democrat who would have become the nation’s first African-American female governor. seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%, 20% … 60% Get breaking news alerts and more from Roll Call on your iPhone or your Android.

Kansas gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach on the modern left's kneejerk response to views they don't like: Accuse your opponent of being a racist. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well…