On the confirmation that Wilbur Ross spoke to Steve Bannon about adding the citizenship question to the #2020Census: The govt admitted this for the first time at 12:06 p.m. today, less than four hours before the plaintiffs' SCOTUS deadline.
Plaintiffs wove it in under the wire.
Plaintiffs wove it in under the wire.
This particular passage is from the 60-page brief filed by @ACLU and @NYCLU attorneys from the civil rights groups involved in the case.
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1…
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1…
.@NewYorkStateAG Underwood caught it too in her 38-page brief.
If the government disclosed this four hours later, the Supreme Court wouldn't have known about Ross's flip-flop on Bannon before ruling whether to spare him from the hot seat. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1…
If the government disclosed this four hours later, the Supreme Court wouldn't have known about Ross's flip-flop on Bannon before ruling whether to spare him from the hot seat. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1…
"Him," meaning Ross, not Bannon.
Those are the trees; here’s the forest:
