POLITICS 07/24/2018 04:08 pm ET Updated 34 minutes ago New documents show Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wanted to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census months before there was a formal request. By Sam Levine Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had a significant interest in adding a question asking about citizenship to the 2020 census months before the Department of Justice asked him to do so, newly disclosed documents show. The documents further undermine the Trump administration’s claim that it is adding the question to the 2020 census so the Department of Justice can better enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act. While the census currently asks about citizenship on the American Community Survey, which goes out to over 3.5 million households each year, it has not asked about citizenship on the decennial census, which goes to every American household, since 1950. In testimony before Congress and in an official memo announcing the decision in March, Ross said the Department of Commerce began to consider adding the question after it received a formal request from the Department of Justice in December 2017. In its request, the Department of Justice said it needed more citizenship data to better enforce the Voting Rights Act,… Read full this story
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