Opinion: The Trump administration keeps spinning its Census scandal
Wilbur Ross By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 14 at 3:00 PM There’s a certain kind of baloney that people in politics regularly toss around that is infuriating yet ubiquitous. Republicans are particularly profligate users in areas such as abortion and voting rights. When they pass laws creating needless hurdles for providers offering abortions, they claim what really concerns them is the health and welfare of women.
Everyone understands this — everyone. But the administration, and Ross in particular, pretends that the only reason they want to add a citizenship question is so the Justice Department can properly enforce the Voting Rights Act. Ross also falsely told Congress that he had not talked with anyone in the White House about the citizenship question. In fact, Stephen K. Bannon, then President Trump’s chief political adviser, called Ross to tell him to speak about a citizenship question to Kris Kobach, the Republican Party’s most noted promoter of voter suppression, as Ross later admitted.
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