WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has asserted executive privilege over documents that were subpoenaed by Congress related to his administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Justice Department said Wednesday. A contempt vote by the committee would be an escalation of Democratic efforts to use their House majority to aggressively investigate the inner workings of the Trump administration . Cummings postponed a planned vote Wednesday morning to allow lawmakers time to read the Justice Department letters. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThe Supreme Court is considering the citizenship question . “The president, the Department of Justice, has every right to do that,” White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC.

Source: thestar June 12, 2019 15:21 UTC