Mealey's (November 19, 2018, 11:49 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Nov. 16 miscellaneous order, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to the federal government in its quest to prevent extra-record discovery in a suit over the planned to collect citizenship data in the upcoming census, with the focus on a trial court’s decision to permit a group of states, which objected to the plan, to depose the secretary of Commerce regarding his mental processes in reaching the decision (In re U.S. Department of Commerce, No. 18-557, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 6777)....