A Census Whodunit: Why Was the Citizenship Question Added?

WASHINGTON -- When a House committee sued senior Trump administration officials this past week over their refusal to turn over details of the administration's failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, it might have seemed a post-mortem to an issue long settled.But five months after the Supreme Court blocked the question, a steady trickle of new disclosures in the case this past month has sharpened questions about whether Republican Party politics drove the effort to add th