Trump shields census documents from Congress as contempt vote looms via ReutersTV
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege on Wednesday to keep under wraps documents on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census, defying a House panel’s subpoena in another move to stonewall Democratic lawmakers’ investigations.
The fight over adding a citizenship question to the census presents high stakes for both Trump’s fellow Republicans and the Democrats, with the 2020 U.S. elections looming. The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule by the end of this month in the Trump administration’s appeal of a judge’s ruling blocking the addition of the question as a violation of federal law.
The Oversight Committee is looking into how the Trump administration devised its plan to add a citizenship question. The committee has said that Ross, whose department runs the census, told the panel he added the question “solely” at the request of the Justice Department. The committee has said that documents and testimony also showed that discussions about the matter between Ross and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach were “orchestrated” by Steve Bannon, a conservative former close adviser to Trump.
“This does not appear to be a good faith effort at negotiation,” Cummings said at the committee meeting. “Instead it appears to be another example of the administration’s blanket defiance of Congress’s constitutionally mandated authority. ... This begs the question: what is being hidden?” The administration has argued that the question would help better enforce a voting rights law, a rationale that critics have said masks the move’s political motivation.
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