法廷，裁判所 とじ込み／提出するing: Steve Bannon 勧めるd 国勢（人口）調査 市民権 question
NEW YORK (AP) - 商業 長官 Wilbur Ross says he now remembers speaking with former 上級の White House 助言者 Steve Bannon in spring 2017 about 追加するing a 市民権 question to the 2020 U.S. 国勢（人口）調査.
政府 lawyers made the 発覚 in a Manhattan 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 文書 Thursday.
The new （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） comes as the U.S. 最高裁判所 considers whether Ross must answer questions from lawyers challenging whether the 市民権 question 合法的に can be 含むd.
Over a dozen 明言する／公表するs and big cities, の中で others, have 告訴するd, 説 Ross 行為／法令／行動するd improperly before it was 発表するd in March that the question would be 追加するd to the 国勢（人口）調査.
原告／提訴人s in two 訴訟s say the 市民権 question will discourage 移民，移住（する）s from 参加するing, diluting political 代表 and 連邦の dollars for 明言する／公表するs that tend to 投票（する） Democratic.
A 裁判官 統括するing over the 訴訟s has said a deposition by the 長官 is necessary in part because Ross had 証言するd under 誓い that he was unaware of discussions between him and anyone in the White House on the 支配する.
U.S. 地区 裁判官 足緒 M. Furman said last month there was 推論する／理由 to believe that Ross had 協議するd with Bannon.
The 裁判官 also said Ross must be 退位させる／宣誓証言するd because 証拠 developed so far "casts 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 疑問" on （人命などを）奪う，主張するs by Ross that he only considered 追加するing the question last December when the 司法（官） Department recommended it.
Furman said Ross has 認める he began considering whether to 追加する a 市民権 question すぐに after his 任命 in February 2017 and 協議するd with さまざまな other 政府 公式の／役人s before 需要・要求するing to know as 早期に as May 2017 why no 活動／戦闘 had been taken on his request.
In its とじ込み／提出するing Thursday, 連邦の 政府 lawyers said Ross 解任するs that Bannon called him in the spring of 2017 to ask if he would speak with then-Kansas 国務長官 Kris Kobach about Kobach's ideas about 追加するing a 市民権 question to t he 国勢（人口）調査.
The lawyers wrote that Ross also discussed 追加するing the question with 司法長官 Jeff 開会／開廷／会期s in the spring of 2017 and at other times.
New York 司法長官 Barbara Underwood, の中で those who have 告訴するd over the 市民権 question, sent a 一連の tweets about the papers とじ込み／提出するd Thursday by the 政府 and its admission about Bannon.
"The story keeps unraveling," she said.
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This story has been 訂正するd to say 市民権, not 検閲, in first graph and 要約.
