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12. @TheJusticeDept attorneys say no - and Trump administration's still working on response to Alabama @AGSteveMarshall & @RepMoBrooks' complaint.

https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1020048148482478081

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 13. Judge Furman says the release of 17 internal documents about citizenship question is still in dispute.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 14. Judge Furman is ordering the release of 3 of the 17 documents in question -- Bates No. 2458, 3984, 9834 -- by Monday, Sept. 17.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 15. Here's one of the documents (Bates #2458) that Judge Furman is ordering to be unredacted 👇

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@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 16. Here's another doc to be unredacted (Bates #3984) 👇

apps.npr.org/documents/docu…

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 17. Here's the third doc to be unredacted (Bates #9834) 👇

apps.npr.org/documents/docu…

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks 18. Judge Furman has denied plaintiffs' request for @TheJusticeDept to identify who are the "senior Administration officials" who "had previously raised" the issue of a citizenship question, per memo by @SecretaryRoss. Here's that June 21 memo 👇

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@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 19. @TheJusticeDept attorneys say they've already identified all the administration officials the memo referred to, so Judge Furman says, "One can't draw blood from a stone."

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 20. Judge Furman says he's waiting to rule on plaintiffs' request to order Trump administration make @SecretaryRoss available for deposition. Plaintiffs' reply to @TheJusticeDept's opposition to the request is due on Monday, Sept. 17.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 21. @TheJusticeDept says Trump officials involved in citizenship Q:

Jeff Sessions
Kris Kobach
Steve Bannon
Wilbur Ross
Jefferson Sessions
Kris Kobach
Steve Bannon
Wilbur Ross
Mary Blanche Hanky
James McHenry
Gene Hamilton
John Gore
Danielle Cutrona

https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1040669340637507592

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 22. @TheJusticeDept is pushing back on Judge Furman's Qs re scheduling potential deposition of @SecretaryRoss, which DOJ has already indicated they would ask 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals to block.

DOJ wants to wait until higher court weighs in.

Discovery deadline is Oct. 12.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 23. Judge Furman says he's going to let plaintiffs' attorneys and @TheJusticeDept work out the DOJ's requests regarding this issue 👇

https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1034903674223579146

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 24. Judge Furman says he's "skeptical" that #2020census citizenship question lawsuits in NY should go to summary judgment instead of trial, but he's open to review motions from attorneys.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 25. @TheJusticeDept attorney Kate Bailey says Trump administration wants to resolve the NY cases with summary judgment based on the record of internal documents and depositions before a trial.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss 26. One of the plaintiffs' attorneys, Elena Goldstein of @NewYorkStateAG office, says a trial is "most efficient & logical way to go" because of "large categories of disputed facts on impact of question" and why citizenship question was added to #2020census.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss @NewYorkStateAG 27. Here's a direct link to the 3rd internal document (Bates #9834) Judge Furman has ordered to be unredacted by Trump administration

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@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss @NewYorkStateAG 28. BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman has set the first potential trial over #2020census citizenship question to start in NY on Nov. 5.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss @NewYorkStateAG 29. "My strong instinct," Judge Furman says, is the #2020census citizenship question lawsuits in NY require a trial - but still open to motions for summary judgment from @TheJusticeDept & plaintiffs.

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss @NewYorkStateAG 30. Judge Furman has scheduled remaining pre-trial conferences for citizenship question lawsuits in NY for:

Oct. 17, 3:30 p.m. ET
Nov. 1

@TheJusticeDept @AGSteveMarshall @RepMoBrooks @SecretaryRoss @NewYorkStateAG 31. "We are adjourned," Judge Furman says.

32. And here's my write-up 👇

npr.org/2018/09/14/648…