Mealey's (February 15, 2019, 3:50 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a miscellaneous order issued Feb. 15, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) in a suit that addresses whether a trial court properly struck down a planned U.S. census question over citizenship, as well as whether the court had the authority to order the deposition of the secretary of Commerce to probe his mental processes on the decision to add the citizenship question (U.S. Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al., No. 18-966, U.S. Sup.)....