A Census citizenship question challenge update thread: After #SCOTUS agreed on Friday — buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg… — to hear a case over what evidence should be allowed in the case ...
... DOJ went back to the trial court, where closing arguments are scheduled for later this month in the trial, asking on Sunday for everything to be put on hold until SCOTUS is done with its case over the evidence. documentcloud.org/documents/5190… 
This morning, Judge Furman ordered the challengers — state gov'ts and immigration groups — to respond to DOJ's motion by 4p Tuesday.
Meanwhile, some smart folks are confused by the SCOTUS move to take the evidence case. Here's @marty_lederman: "This is, I believe, a very strange, almost inexplicable, grant ..." balkin.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-od…
Wow. This is wild. After DOJ's Sunday filing, with a Monday order from the judge directing a Tuesday response, DOJ nonetheless decided to skip over Furman and filed at the 2nd Circuit seeking a stay of all further proceedings pending #SCOTUS ruling in the evidence case.
Here's the 2nd Circuit filing, seeking a stay of all further proceedings in the Census citizenship question challenge until SCOTUS rules in the evidence case: documentcloud.org/documents/5191…
DOJ's practice of skipping over courts and forcing lower courts' hands with rulings by threatening to go to higher courts is really astounding, and the Supreme Court has already made it clear they have issues with it.
