Jeff Sessions’ DOJ is Apparently Hiding Information About Census Citizenship Question

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is refusing to provide key information related to the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census.

On February 1, non-partisan government accountability watchdog the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request “for all records pertaining to Arthur E. Gary’s December 12, 2017 request to the Census Bureau to add a Citizenship question to the 2020 Census Questionnaire. On February 28, the DOJ responded to CLC’s FOIA request–and summarily denied it.

In comments to Law&Crime, CLC’s Media Strategist Corey Goldstone said, “We are extremely disappointed by this response.”

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