Plastic face New York socialist Democrat Carolyn Maloney announced that the House Oversight Panel is suing Bob Barr and WIlbur Ross for not complying with the Democrat subpoenas. I’m sure both Barr and Ross and trembling in fear. Believe it or not this has nothing to do with the Schiff show. Instead, it’s over the 2020 census.
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The House Committee on Oversight and Reform announced Tuesday that it is suing Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over their refusal to comply with an investigation about the Trump administration’s since-abandoned effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
The Supreme Court ruled against the move to add a question about citizenship to the decennial count of every person in the United States in June, saying that while the Trump administration technically had the authority to add the query, it had not provided a valid explanation for why it was doing so. Then, in July, the House voted to hold Ross and Barr in contempt of Congress for ignoring subpoenas related to the Oversight Committee’s investigation, led by the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., into the process and reasoning behind the administration’s push to add the citizenship question.
“Since the Supreme Court ruled against them — and the House of Representatives held them in contempt for blocking the Committee’s investigation — Attorney General Barr and Commerce Secretary Ross have doubled down on their open defiance of the rule of law and refused to produce even a single additional document in response to our Committee’s bipartisan subpoenas,” new Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said about the legal action.