Mealey's (March 8, 2019, 1:21 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a merits brief on behalf of the federal government in the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, arguing that a trial court wrongly deemed a citizenship question on the upcoming the U.S. census to be unconstitutional and condemning that court’s decision to allow extrarecord discovery in the form of a deposition of the secretary of Commerce to probe his mental processes on the census question (U.S. Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al., No. 18-966, U.S. Sup.)....