not prioritize agriculture, Marshall said, "Fake news and another lie by Kris Kobach." Connections with Trump administration Kobach was a member of the Platform Committee of the 2016 Republican National Convention. It was subsequently reported that Kobach was being considered for Secretary of Homeland Security. He was photographed carrying a document into a meeting with Trump the title of which could be read as being, "Department of Homeland Security, Kobach Strategic Plan for First 365 Days". This plan reportedly included a register of Muslims as part of a suite of proposals, which included the "extreme vetting" of immigrants. The New York Times described Kobach as "close to the White House inner circle, including the president and his chief strategist, Steve Bannon",; also published by the New York Times on June 18, 2017, on Page MM26 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: The Exclusionist</ref> and having told the Associated Press that he met Trump in May 2017 through his son Donald Trump Jr., "with whom he has a mutual friend". He was named vice chairman of the new Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity by Trump in 2017. In June 2017 he told supporters that he has had "the honor of personally advising President Trump, both before the election and after the election, on how to reduce illegal immigration." In a March 14, 2019 hearing, Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross was questioned about his conversations regarding the adding of a citizenship question to the 2020 census surveys, which he had with immigration hardliners Kobach, Bannon, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Missouri Democratic Representative Lacy Clay accused Ross of being "complicit" regarding his efforts to weaken minority group voting rights, accusing Ross of committing perjury. He called for Ross to tender his resignation, saying, "You lied to Congress. You misled the American people and you are complicit in the Trump administration's intent to suppress the growing political power of the non-white population." The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on April 23, 2019, regarding appeals of rejections by three circuit courts of the proposed inclusion of the survey question. The court affirmed the appeals, rejecting the question's inclusion, and it was felt Kobach's initial advocacy of the initiative undermined the rationale of the Census Bureau's case. When asked by ABC News about Trump's claim that he (Trump) had "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted