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BREAKING: There is a shakeup in Trump admin's legal team involved in getting a #CitizenshipQuestion on the #2020Census. @TheJusticeDept is "shifting these matters to a new team of Civil Division lawyers going forward," DOJ spokesperson Kerri Kupec says in a written statement
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2. I'm watching court dockets for @TheJusticeDept filings on lawyer shakeup for #CitizenshipQuestion cases.
I did find fewer career DOJ attorney names listed in recent filings for Maryland cases after President Trump's July 3 tweets.
On left, June 28 & on right, July 5pic.twitter.com/AZt3CL4hOM
3. Last week, career DOJ attorney Josh Gardner was apparently caught off guard by President Trump's #CitizenshipQuestion tweets, which judge said "directly contradicted" Gardner telling court admin was moving forward w #2020Census forms w/o the question
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6182391-July-3-2019-Transcript-of-Hearing-Before-U-S.html#document/p5/a510936 …pic.twitter.com/upRYwWI8eL
4. "I do not have a deeper understanding of what that means at this juncture other than what the President has tweeted. But, obviously, as you can imagine, I am doing my absolute best to figure out what's going on," DOJ career attorney Josh Gardner said
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6182391-July-3-2019-Transcript-of-Hearing-Before-U-S.html#document/p6/a510937 …pic.twitter.com/pKKiZ3kLMF
5. Here's my write-up (with an assist from @johnson_carrie) on the latest twist in the legal battle over the #CitizenshipQuestion the Trump administrations wants on the #2020Censushttps://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/739369416/justice-department-changes-legal-team-behind-census-citizenship-question-case …
6. While we wait for @TheJusticeDept to file court papers, DOJ officials told @NPR Sunday the new legal team for #CitizenshipQuestion cases would include lawyers from DOJ's Consumer Protection Branch, which does not include the census among focus areas
https://www.justice.gov/civil/practice-areas …pic.twitter.com/2krloc9Vpd
7. The branch of @TheJusticeDept's Civil Division that does focus on the census is the Federal Programs Branch, which is where the career DOJ attorneys (including Josh Gardner) that have been on the #CitizenshipQuestion
cases are from
https://www.justice.gov/civil/federal-programs-branch#Area%203 …pic.twitter.com/I5AG8oqI06
Sounds like they fired the lawyers who fought for the rule of law, and will press forward with Steven Miller acolytes.
So the Millerites will rightfully get the blame when this blows up in their faces.
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