June 06, 2019
Warren, Blumenthal, Senate Colleagues Call For Review of Conduct by DOJ Attorneys
Attorneys May Have Deliberately Misled the Public & the Courts About Trump Administration Efforts to Politicize the Census
Washington, DC – United States
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)
and five other senators in writing to the
Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility seeking a
review of DOJ attorneys’ “alleged attempts to hide or obscure
the contribution of a deeply partisan political operative to the addition of a
citizenship question to the 2020 Census.” Recent reporting has revealed that
DOJ attorneys may have given false testimony to mislead the court and the
public about efforts by the Trump administration to add the citizenship
question so that immigrants and people of color living in the United States would
be undercounted.
“If attorneys involved in these lawsuits
engaged in misconduct to defend the administration rather than to uphold the
law, it is incumbent upon your office to investigate and administer appropriate
disciplinary actions,” the senators wrote.
The letter was
also signed by U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Brian Schatz
(D-Hawaii), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Kirsten
Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).
Senator Warren believes the census must
count every person and continues to
be an outspoken critic of the citizenship question.
She has been part of several other efforts to protect the integrity of the
Census. Last month, she joined Senator Schatz and colleagues in calling
for the inspectors general at the Departments of Justice and Commerce to
investigate those departments’ efforts to hide partisan, undemocratic motives
for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. In October 2018, Senator
Warren joined
colleagues in requesting that the Department of Commerce Inspector General look
into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to add the question.
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