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Wilbur Ross Lied Under Oath About Citizenship Question on 2020 Census

HeadlineSep 19, 2018

In voting rights news, Mother Jones reports that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied under oath in testimony about the controversial citizenship question in the 2020 census. Ross claimed that the Justice Department requested the addition of the question in order to better enforce the Voting Right Act, but new emails confirm that he was the one who approached the Justice Department about including the controversial question after consulting with senior White House officials. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, then-head of the widely discredited and now-defunct “Election Integrity Commission,” was one of the officials who lobbied Ross to add the question “at the direction of Steve Bannon.” Multiple lawsuits are challenging the inclusion of the citizenship question in the census.

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