Lawyers who beat Trump team on census to get $2.7M in fees

The Justice Department last week quietly agreed to pay $2.7 million in fees and court costs for the lawyers who sued to block the U.S. from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 survey, according to the terms of a nonpublic settlement.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in January barred the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, from including the question “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” on the once-a-decade questionnaire.

The U.S. unsuccessfully appealed to the Supreme Court.

Then, on Aug. 2, a Justice Department lawyer signed off on the settlement to pay the New York