The DOJ rejected a House Democratic demand for more documents about the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, likely leading to another contempt of Congress citation for William Barr
for more documents about the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, likely leading to anotherIn a letter to Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings , Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said the documents the panel subpoenaed are protected by attorney-client privilege and therefore cannot be disclosed.“[T]he committee’s insistence that the department immediately turn over these documents ...
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.The committee has been investigating the decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, with lawmakers accusing the Trump administration — Ross in particular — of lying about its origins.
New evidence emerged last week that the administration allegedly “concealed” the role of now-deceased Republican gerrymandering expert Thomas Hofeller, who believed that adding a citizenship question to the census would boost Republicans in future elections. The Trump administration has said it is simply trying to enforce the Voting Rights Act, but Democrats have argued that such a question would create an under-count of ethnic and racial minorities, resulting in newly drawn congressional districts that would diminish their influence in American elections.
Cummings said this week that the Trump administration was seeking “to gerrymander congressional districts in overtly racist, partisan, and unconstitutional ways,” and he accused the Trump administration of a “cover-up.” Republicans on the committee have said that holding Barr and Ross in contempt is an effort to improperly interfere with ongoing Supreme Court litigation about the census question.
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