I want to get back to this idea that adding a citizenship question to the census was important for enforcing the Voting Rights Act, because I think that was a rationale that was concocted by your department and then foisted upon the DOJ and others based on some other agenda that was underway.
Sarbanes criticizes the justification for the citizenship question as politically motivated.
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