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Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Judge blocks justice department's legal team change in US census cases

A US district judge called the request ‘patently deficient’ after it was announced that nine lawyers would be replaced

A federal judge in New York ruled the US Department of Justice can’t replace nine lawyers on the legal team arguing the controversial dispute over whether the administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census without explaining why it wants to swap out the lawyers.

The justice department announced this week that it was appointing a new team of lawyers to take over census-related cases, after the supreme court upheld a lower court decision rejecting the commerce department’s stated justification for adding a citizenship question to the census.

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