BREAKING: DOJ docs prove that Kobach and Bannon are behind Census citizenship Q. Kobach emails say he talked to Sec Ross “at the direction of Steve Bannon.” In email, Kobach proposes specific language for the citizenship Q, says it’s essential” and “needs to be added to census.”
Also in these docs is internal memo from@Chief Scientist at Census Bureau to Sec Ross from Jan 2018: adding citizenship Q “is v costly, harms the quality of census count, and would use substantially less accurate citizenship status data than are available from admin sources.”
DOJ’s production omits entire categories of requested documents, incl communications btwn WH and DOJ explaining why warnings by Census Bureau career experts were ignored or overruled. @RepCummings is having none of it and asking @TGowdySC to issue subpoena for these docs.
The weaponization of the census for political reasons will have dire consequences for everything we care about. It is unacceptable. Whether through the courts or the legislative process, the citizenship question must be removed from the census.
