Plaintiffs’ lawyers challenging the question wrote to Furman on Thursday morning requesting that he impose sanctions on the defendants. Mark Neuman and senior Justice Department official John Gore, as well as other testimony by defendants. [House committee to vote on holding Barr and Ross in contempt for failing to provide documents related to 2020 Census citizenship question]In a six-page letter filed to Furman, Justice Department lawyers denied those claims. A key issue in the challenges to the citizenship question is how it came to be added. Rather than analyzing the effects of adding a citizenship question, it said Hofeller had analyzed the effects of switching representation from all residents to citizens of voting age.

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2019 00:38 UTC