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I’m still up because, well, I’m me, and I’m just really delving into the disaster that was Census-tweet-gate, and DOJ lawyers are almost directly telling federal judges, “We have no clue what the hell the president is thinking.”
US District Judge George Hazel more or less says that if this wasn’t the president, he’d order Trump himself to appear at the next hearing bc it’s become clear the lawyers don’t speak for their client. 
This is only a 20-minute hearing, and yet it makes so exceptionally clear how damaging Trump is to the country — and how long the effects of his actions will be felt across the government and the country.
Jody Hunt, Jeff Sessions’ former chief of staff at DOJ when Commerce first asked DOJ in 2017 to send the VRA letter to justify the citizenship question, was the second DOJ lawyer on the phone today at the Maryland case hearing. Hunt told the court they’re still trying.
And, finally, here’s what happened when the other DOJ lawyer, Gardner, asked for more time before the parties have to tell the court what to do now:
