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DOJ won't comply with Oversight subpoena over census question
By Juliegrace Brufke and Jacqueline Thomsen - 04/24/19 12:09 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/440427-doj-official-to-refuse-to-comply-with-house-oversight-subpoena-on
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday doubled down on its refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Oversight and Reform Committee for an official’s testimony on the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
The Democratic-led committee had requested that John Gore, a deputy assistant attorney general in DOJ’s civil rights division, testify about the citizenship question. But the Justice Department said because lawmakers will still not allow a DOJ attorney to be in the room with Gore during his deposition, the official will not comply with the request.
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"We appreciate the offer made in the Committee's April 10, 2019 letter to permit Department counsel to be present in a separate room during the deposition, but such an accommodation would not address the Department's need to have counsel present in the deposition room to assist Mr. Gore in connection with the deposition,” the DOJ letter Wednesday reads. “We are disappointed that the Committee remains unwilling to permit Department counsel to represent the interests of the Executive Branch in the deposition of a senior Department official.”
A spokesperson for the Oversight Committee did not immediately return a request for comment.
The DOJ previously asserted in a letter sent to Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) earlier this month that it would not comply with the panel's subpoena if Gore was not permitted to have an agency attorney with him, arguing barring DOJ legal representation was unprecedented as Gore previously testified with department counsel present.
DOJ spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement Wednesday that “[i]n keeping with longstanding Department of Justice policy, neither Mr. Gore nor anyone else in the Department will be forced to testify in their capacity as a DOJ official on DOJ matters without DOJ counsel.”
Another DOJ official told The Hill that Gore “has the Attorney General’s unqualified support in this matter.”
Gore’s deposition is scheduled for Thursday morning.