“Unfortunately, your actions are part of a pattern,” Cummings wrote to Barr and Ross in the letters. Democratic leaders could put the citations together in a massive contempt vote next week. In his Monday letter to Barr, Cummings cited the attorney general’s “unprecedented order” to Gore to defy the subpoena as part of the reason for the upcoming votes. Last week, new evidence emerged suggesting that the citizenship question was crafted specifically to give an electoral advantage to Republicans and whites. A key issue in the challenges to the citizenship question is how it came to be added.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2019 20:37 UTC