We previously suggested that the federal court judge in New York hearing the census case — in which the Trump administration was told to come up with a better pretext for including the citizenship question than the false one it gave the Supreme Court — find out why the Justice Department, after reversing itself on both the deadline for the printing and its acquiescence to leaving out the citizenship question, was swapping out one set of lawyers for another. If, and I’m just taking a wild guess here, the first set of lawyers believed they were ethically prohibited from making the arguments or submitting the facts their superiors told them to, then the court should know about it.
Jennifer Rubin: A federal judge uncovers the Justice Department’s ethical morass
