Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, et al., Amici Curiae
Mithun Masinghani, Counsel of Record
Oklahoma, Alabama, and Arkansas are joined in this brief by 12 other States and two governors. Mithun Masinghani has served as solicitor general for the State of Oklahoma since March 2017. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 2019. Citizenship questions on a census have existed for millennia throughout the Western world. In America, residents have been asked their citizenship by the Census Bureau over a billion times. Despite this lengthy history, the court below saw only pretext and capriciousness in the secretary’s decision to reinstate the longstanding…
