Mealey's (December 18, 2018, 1:35 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Dec. 17 brief on behalf of the federal government, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asks the U.S. Supreme Court to find that a trial court erred in compelling the deposition of the secretary of Commerce in a challenge to a planned citizenship query in the upcoming census, arguing that the order “def[ies] decades of settled law” and precedent that disfavors the deposition of high-ranking government officials (In re U.S. Department of Commerce, No. 18-557, U.S. Sup.)....