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1/ A reminder to all those "census officials and lawyers at the Justice and Commerce departments [who] scrapped holiday plans and spent their Independence Day seeking new legal rationales for a citizenship question":

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
2/ It is *not your job* to come up with still more "contrived reasons" (Roberts, CJ) for *any* agency policy, let alone one that is, in fact, impermissibly motivated.

Indeed, that's a breach of your duty--an abuse of your office.

Seriously.

P.S. It's also not your job . . .
3/ . . . to ""work[] furiously to find a way to appease [the President]."

Think about it.
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New DOJ team on census cases appears to be your typical array of attorneys from the Office of Immigration Litigation and the Civil Frauds Division, headed by the new political head of Consumer Protection and Civil AAG Jody Hunt's Senior Counsel. Business as usual.
But don't worry: I'm sure this crack team was chosen because of their many years of expertise in the Administrative Procedure Act and issues related to the census.
Curious: For some inexplicable reason, it appears that no one from the Aviation, Space & Admiralty Section was available and willing to come aboard.

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1/ Why is AG Barr transferring responsibility for the census cases to the DOJ Consumer Protection Branch, given that its functions have nothing to do with the census? Watch for the name David Morrell, recently appointed to be Deputy Assistant AAG in charge of the CP Branch.
2/ Morrell clerked for Edith Jones and Clarence Thomas--then worked at Jones Day and in the White House Counsel's Office. No surprise he'd be in charge. Watch for whether any career lawyers agree to join, and whether OSG is on-board, despite its earlier representations re: 06/30.
More on the SG and the deadline here:

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