Trump shields census documents from Congress as contempt vote looms

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.

TV Thank about it, this is outrageous? The President of the United States is trying to hide the 2020 census? This guy needs to be impeached two years back! ImpeachDonaldTrumpNOW

TV Good. The Dems are absolutely out of their mind. He should give them nothing. Ever. He should forget they exist because they have severed themselves from not only their fellow Americans, but American history, as they attempt to destroy all things American.

TV Enough! Democrats are going way too far in resisting everything. I will never vote Democrat again.

TV Tick...TICK...TICK..... Barr has your number and is going to come calling

TV If the citizenship question is allowed to be part of the census what happens if we all leave the question unanswered? I plan on just leaving the question blank.

TV What the heck is he hiding?

TV trump punking congress and congress acting like wimps

TV The barmaid from the Bronx. A real scholar.

TV Sue Trump. Hold others in contempt. What are the republicans hiding?

TV Did the narrator say, 'Democrat' controlled and not Democratic? Smh.

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