A federal judge says the Justice Department cannot swap out its legal team in the census citizenship question case
"Defendants provide no reasons, let alone 'satisfactory reasons,' for the substitution of counsel," wrote District Judge Jesse Furman, citing upcoming deadlines."As this Court observed many months ago, this case has been litigated on the premise -- based 'in no small part' on Defendants' own 'insist' -- that the speedy resolution of Plaintiffs' claims is a matter of great private and public importance.
The government had said the issue needed to be resolved by July 1 in order to begin printing the questionnaires on time and officials said last week they would proceed, despite Trump's continuing efforts to get the citizenship question added. Trump is still considering an executive order in an effort to force a citizenship question onto the 2020 census, according to officials familiar with the situation.
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