Democrats want lawyers for criminals but not for Republicans

As part of their desperate attempt to make sure that illegals count for apportioning House seats Elijah Cummings, the head of the House Oversight Committee,wants John Gore to testify about how it was decided go add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census.

Without that question Democrat states with lots of illegals will get extra seats in the House and probably more Federal money for welfare.

Trump is glad to let Gore testify but as per usual DOJ practice the DOJ wants a lawyer to be present to address issues of executive branch privilege.  Obama and all presidents have defended the right of the Executive branch to have confidential discussions about issues; the idea is that the presidents team can't have open and honest discussions if they know every word they say could show up on the evening news.

But Cummings refuses to allow the lawyer to be present.

Of course as a Democrat Cummings undoubtedly believes that anything a criminal says without a lawyer present shouldn't be used against him.

Democrats and the media are labeling the DOJ wanting a lawyer present as Trump refusing to cooperate.

Interestingly Republicans allowed Comey to have an FBI attorney present when he testified.