Trump Lost on the Census, but the Scandal Is Just Getting Started

Trump Lost on the Census, but the Scandal Is Just Getting Started

Jay Michaelson at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lost-on-the-census-but-the-scandal-is-just-getting-started?ref=home

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What’s actually meaningful are the two lawsuits over the citizenship question and the congressional investigations over what Trump officials knew and when. And all of those are still ongoing.

Why? Because, at this point, those investigations are about the lies the administration told, not the underlying question itself: the cover-up, not the crime, so to speak. And those are all live legal questions.

First, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that the House of Representatives will vote “soon” on a contempt of Congress resolution against Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Barr.

That vote stems from the two officials’ refusal to hand over reams of subpoenaed documents related to the census question. And whether those two officials acted in contempt of Congress has nothing to do with whether the citizenship question is alive or dead. If they ignored the subpoenas, that’s contempt, regardless of the context.


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