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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 27, 2019

The U.S. House Oversight Committee has sued two top Trump administration officials for refusing to produce documents related to a decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Fox 17 reports. The suit seeks to force Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to turn over internal documents about the effort. Both officials have said more than 31,000 pages have already been produced but the documents in question are subject to executive privilege. The administration abandoned the citizenship question last summer after the U.S. Supreme Court said justification for the question “seems to have been contrived.”