NEW: House Oversight Cmte., led by new chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, has filed a lawsuit against AG Barr and Commerce Sec. Ross for blocking the cmte'.s investigation into the admin.'s failed efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
"I am filing this enforcement action today because the Trump Administration’s brazen obstruction of Congress must not stand," she said."President Trump and his aides are not above the law."
Maloney said in court documents that the aim of the probe is to protect the integrity of the census as the agency prepares to conduct the crucial count by April 1, 2020, because"many of the same officials who attempted to add the illegal citizenship question are still in place today and may be involved with executing various components of the 2020 Census."
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross testifies at his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 8, 2017.In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration could not add a citizenship question to the census, calling its rationale for doing so"contrived" and"pre-textual." The Census Bureau later announced it would begin printing the forms without the question. President Donald Trump then issuedto hold Barr and Ross in criminal contempt of Congress.
Maloney succeeds Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, who died last month. She is the first woman to lead the powerful committee, one of the three overseeing
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