A lawsuit filed Tuesday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee against Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Attorney General William Barr seeks to force them to comply with the panel’s subpoenas for documents and information related to the 2020 Census.
“I am filing this enforcement action today because the Trump administration’s brazen obstruction of Congress must not stand,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the chairwoman of the Oversight Committee, according to Politico. “President Trump and his aides are not above the law.”
In July, the Democrat-controlled House voted to enforce the Oversight Committee’s subpoena seeking information regarding the Trump administration’s effort to include a citizenship question on the U.S. Census questionnaires next year. The vote held Ross and Barr in contempt for refusing to comply.
“The committee is investigating the attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, both to conduct oversight of the executive branch and to determine whether legislation may be necessary to amend the census process or to provide additional safeguards in light of defendants’ conduct,” the committee wrote in the .
The panel specifies the need for information on “the Commerce Department’s process for soliciting and evaluating input regarding the citizenship question,” and its “efforts to affect the accuracy of the enumeration, and improper political influences on the census.”
“This information is critical to the committee’s oversight and legislative interests in furthering an accurate enumeration,” the complaint further states.
“Without the information, the committee cannot fulfill its constitutional duties to oversee DOJ and the Commerce Department and to remedy through legislation any defects in the administration of the census — tasks that are at the foundation of American democracy.”
Democrats are opposed to the inclusion of a citizenship question on the Census next year. But the White House says the question is vital in order to obtain specific information so it can comply with regulatory and legal voting requirements.
“This is a question that’s been included in every census since 1965, with the exception of 2010, when it was removed,” then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in March 2018.
“We’ve contained this question that provides data that is necessary for the Department of Justice to protect voters and specifically help us better comply with the Voting Rights Act.”
Republicans also say the citizenship question is vital to determining proper distribution of House seats.
First, we don’t have a “democracy” we have a Constitutional Republic. It appears to be a democracy, because the Alpha hole’s up there in D.C. like to rule by mob, rather than the wants or needs of their Constituents- that’s sedition.
Second, proper knowledge of actual voters is important. In Texas, California, New York, and New Jersey, are all examples of States who have issues when dealing with voters and illegal aliens- yes, they are illegal aliens, no they are not undocumented immigrants.
Persons whom are legal residents and Natural residents, may vote, yet, somehow- illegal immigrants still get on the voter rolls, skewing any results, and violating the laws on public participation. Strange….
And Democrats (and some Republicans) refuse to allow the citizenship question anywhere because they enjoy mass confusion, mass ignorance, and missed-information.
It makes it easier to further violate the Constitution and enforce the misrepresentation and misquotes of our founding documents, like Federalist 65, 42-49, and 72.
More Democrat Coup…. Arrest ,convict and execute the coup members.