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BREAKING: Judge Blocks DOJ Legal Team Shake Up In New York Census Case
DOJ Is Still Looking For ‘New’ Reason To Add Citizenship Question To Census
BREAKING

In a major reversal, a top Justice Department official tells a federal judge that the administration is working to find a way to get the citizenship question back on the 2020 census and is considering taking the matter directly to the Supreme Court.

BREAKING: DOJ Says It’s Been ‘Instructed’ To Try To Get Citizenship Question Back On Census
Latest On Census Chaos

Word is trickling out that a federal judge in Maryland has moved up a deadline for the Justice Department to confirm that a citizenship question will not be on the 2020 census form.

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

laid out where we are the census citizenship question as of mid-afternoon today, but this report from CNN nicely captures the inanity of the President acting out on Twitter while lawyers are trying to represent the government in an actual federal court with rules and consequences and such:

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Trump Sowing Census Chaos Prime Badge
Well And Truly Dead? Prime Badge
Trump Administration Drops Citizenship Question From Census
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