BREAKING: House oversight panel backs contempt vote in census dispute
1 / 8Census Citizenship QuestionHouse Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., joined at left by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member, holds debate on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2019.
The White House asserted executive privilege on the matter earlier Wednesday. The Justice Department said officials had"engaged in good-faith efforts" to satisfy the committee's oversight needs and labeled the planned contempt vote"unnecessary and premature." The oversight panel's chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, disputed the Justice Department's account and said most of the documents turned over to the committee had already been made public.
Trump has pledged to"fight all the subpoenas" issued by Congress and says he won't work on legislative priorities, such as infrastructure, until Congress halts investigations of his administration. Computer files from North Carolina redistricting expert Tom Hofeller include detailed calculations that lay out gains Republicans would see in Texas by basing legislative districts on the number of voting-age citizens rather than the total population.
"I think it's totally ridiculous that we would have a census without asking" about citizenship, Trump said Wednesday,"but the Supreme Court is going to be ruling on it soon. I think when the census goes out ... you have the right to ask whether or not somebody is a citizen of the United States."
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