Census Judge Denies Trump Administration’s Bid for New Team
- U.S. provides ‘no reasons’ for dropping 11 lawyers from case
- Trump seeks citizenship question after Supreme Court loss
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A federal judge rejected a request by the Trump administration to assign a new legal team to a lawsuit that blocked the U.S. from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan called the government’s request “patently deficient,” adding that the U.S. had provided “no reasons, let alone ’satisfactory reasons,’ for the substitution of counsel.” He said the government has to show that replacing the team won’t add further delay to the suit.