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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.U.S. House panel backs citing two Trump officials with contempt over census
By Jan Wolfe, David Morgan and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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CrazyJoe
The President wants to use "executive privilege" to keep the country from hearing first-hand about his racist intent regarding the U.S. census.
plasticmonkey
This whole thing stinks. It's a clear plan to suppress minority responses to the census in order to increase white Republican representation. Hofeller. Kobach. Bannon. You think these guys were ever concerned about protecting the voting rights act?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-question-hofeller.html
The sad thing is that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court will likely uphold the Commerce Department's move.
SuperLib
This one is pretty open and shut. They already have the documents showing Ross knowingly lied in his statement to the committee. Ross said the request came from the DOJ when it was really the White House telling the DOJ to make the request.
It's an obviously naked political attempt to rig the system and those behind it tried to cover up their involvement.
plasticmonkey
Ergo, rigging the electoral system is fine and dandy.
PTownsend
in his ongoing attempts to undermine the democratic principles of the republic. Trump has autocrat envy; he wants to be like Xi, Kim (his stated love interest), Putin, MbS and others.
A properly functioning democracy is perhaps the only way to prevent authoritarian dictatorships.
bass4funk
It does.
If that were true Obama would have never won twice. Now I do think we should know how many illegals are in this country and how many are voting
Probably as much as the Democrats wanting to protect the border.
Joe Blow
Define properly functioning.
The US is a representative democracy/republic, not a direct democracy, if you meant the latter.