Mealey's (November 16, 2018, 8:45 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Nov. 13 brief, a group of U.S. states oppose a petition for mandamus filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to prevent extra-record discovery in a suit over the plan to collect citizenship data in the upcoming census, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that the petition was premature and defending a trial court’s decision to permit the deposition of the secretary of Commerce (In re U.S. Department of Commerce, No. 18-557, U.S. Sup.)....