Trump admin. lawyers blocked a former official from discussing census citizenship question in House Oversight hearing almost 100 times.
The documents shed some additional light on the basis for adding the question, which the Supreme Court is set rule on this week.
"Official after official appearing before the Committee have refused to answer questions about the real reasons behind their effort, but the mounting evidence points to a partisan and discriminatory effort to harm the interests of Democrats and non-Whites," he added.that the Justice Department made a formal request in December 2017 for the Census Bureau to reinstate the citizenship question"for use in Voting Rights Act enforcement.
"The secretary asked me to look into the issue. I would say at some point in the spring of 2017, likely March or April," Uthmeier said, according to the transcript, adding that he discussed this issue with Ross"multiple times." Uthmeier had also solicited advice from Thomas Hofeller, a Republican redistricting specialist, who wrote in letters and memos that the question would create anFormer Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an immigration hard-liner who served on Trump's transition team, was also consulted.
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