Voting rights activists argue that newly uncovered correspondence bolsters their argument that discrimination motivated a census question.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings after the panel voted to hold Atty. Gen. William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over documents on a citizenship query on the 2020 census.
While U.S. District Judge George Hazel in Maryland issued a ruling in April to block the addition of the census question, he said the Maryland plaintiffs failed to prove that their equal protection rights were violated because they hadn't shown that Ross and other officials acted with discriminatory intent.
Trump administration lawyers argued in filings before Hazel this week that the newly discovered documents don't justify the"extraordinary request" to reopen a case already decided in the plaintiffs' favor. Voting rights groups have argued that the citizenship question would serve to strengthen GOP congressional representation and funding for areas where mostly Republicans reside by suppressing the count of immigrants. States with large numbers of immigrants tend to vote Democratic.
The Hofeller documents were discovered when his estranged daughter found four external computer hard drives and 18 thumb drives in her father's Raleigh, N.C., home after his death last summer.
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