New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) threatened legal action against the Trump administration’s expected executive action regarding a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

“We stand ready to take all appropriate legal action,” James tweeted Thursday morning.

We stand ready to take all appropriate legal action. https://t.co/PKKVpACXKu — NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) July 11, 2019

A White House official said Thursday morning President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE plans to later in the day announce an executive action addressing the addition of a citizenship question to the census, an inquiry the Supreme Court recently blocked the administration from adding to the decennial population count.

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White House officials declined to discuss the content of the executive action but told The Hill it may not be a full-blown executive order.

Trump has hinted in recent days that he may plan to use an executive order to add the question on the 2020 census, though such a move would likely spark a bevy of lawsuits.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the administration said it would continue with the census without inquiring about citizenship, only to quickly reverse course when Trump doubled down.

“They're spending 15 [billion] to 20 billion dollars on a census,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “They're asking everything except, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States?’ How ridiculous is that? So we are moving forward. We have a couple of avenues.”

The census will help determine the number of congressional seats and electoral votes that each state gets, making it critical to how votes will be counted in the decade after it is taken. Critics have panned the citizenship question as an effort to undercount immigrant communities and possibly reduce their resources and representation in Congress.