CONFIRMED: @TheJusticeDept initially "did not want to raise" citizenship Q request for #2020census when approached by @CommerceGov beginning in May 2017 "given the difficulties Justice was encountering in the press at the time (the whole Comey matter)" 👇
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@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov 2. You may have seen this newly unredacted email tweeted out earlier:
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ordered it be released by Trump administration today.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ordered it be released by Trump administration today.
@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov 3. Unredacted version of memo was filed w Manhattan fed court by plaintiffs' attys @NewYorkStateAG office, @ACLU, @NYCLU, @arnoldporter. They are urging Judge Furman to order deposition of @SecretaryRoss, whose conduct has been - in the attys' words - "astonishing, unprecedented"
@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov @NewYorkStateAG @ACLU @NYCLU @arnoldporter @SecretaryRoss 4. Attorneys @TheJusticeDept have already indicated they're prepared to ask 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block a deposition of @SecretaryRoss if Judge Furman orders one.
@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov @NewYorkStateAG @ACLU @NYCLU @arnoldporter @SecretaryRoss 5. @TheJusticeDept spokesperson Devin O'Malley has declined to comment to @NPR about the newly unredacted memo.
@TheJusticeDept @CommerceGov @NewYorkStateAG @ACLU @NYCLU @arnoldporter @SecretaryRoss @NPR 6. And here's my write-up 👇
npr.org/2018/09/17/648…
npr.org/2018/09/17/648…
