operative knew and detailed an intent to intimidate racial and immigrant communities for a partisan purpose? a recent supreme court decision last month in which chief justice john roberts sided with the liberals on the court made it clear the majority on the court saw through the trump administration s attempts to rig the constitutionally required united states census to try and take money and resources away from nonwhite people and immigrants. the trump administration s attempts to pretend that they really wanted to add a citizenship question to the census to help them enforce the voting rights act were easily seen right through. the career lawyers at the justice department seemed content to listen to the court. apparently donald trump was not. after going on a twitter tirade, apparently after conoodling with his allies, he ordered the doj to try again. on friday, trump invented a new
president trump told reporters four or five options are under consideration. we can start now and do an addendum after we get a positive decision. we are working a lot of things, including an executive order. minority leader chuck schumer tweeting, let s be clear what s happening here. career, career lawyers through in the towel because they couldn t defend the indefensible, but president trump got mad so his campaign press secretary, attorney general william barr, stepped in to try and please them. all of this as president trump touts the latest jobs report calling it unexpectedly good. the economy added 224,000 jobs in june, that s up from 72,000 in may. the president is spending the weekend at his golf club in bedminster, new jersey. his arrival marks the symbolic week that was anything but routine. president trump claims his salute to america event will increase the ranks of the u.s.
we have been instructed to not do what we told the court what we would do yesterday and we have no idea what that means we should do, but here i am telling you what donald trump s twitter feed told me to do regardless of what it means for the justice department. regardless of what it means for the lawyers, including the career lawyers whose reputations in federal court depend in part on whether or not the court can believe them when they say things. here s how the judge decides to end this. just brutal. the judge said okay. here s where we are. if either side has a different view, i will hear that. but here s where we are. by friday at 2:00 p.m., i either want a stipulation as we have been discussing indicating that the citizenship question will not appear on the census or a proposed scheduling order on how we will go forward on the claim remanded to this court. i want one of those two things by 2:00 on friday. any questions? this is mr. gardner. the one thing i request is given that
what it means for the justice department. regardless of what it means for the lawyers, including the career lawyers whose reputations in federal court depend in part on whether or not the court can believe them when they say things. here s how the judge decides to end this. just brutal. the judge said okay. here s where we are. if either side has a different view, i will hear that. but here s where we are. by friday at 2:00 p.m., i either want a stipulation as we have been discussing indicating that the citizenship question will not appear on the census or a proposed scheduling order on how we will go forward on the claim remanded to this court. i want one of those two things by 2:00 on friday. any questions? this is mr. gardner. the one thing i request is given that tomorrow is the fourth of july and the difficulty in assembling people from all over the place, is it possible we can do this on monday?
department. regardless of what it means for the lawyers, including the career lawyers whose reputations in federal court depend in part on whether or not the court can believe them when they say things. here s how the judge decides to end this. just brutal. the judge said okay. here s where we are. if either side has a different view, i will hear that. but here s where we are. by friday at 2:00 p.m., i either want a stipulation as we have been discussing indicating that the citizenship question will not appear on the census or a proposed scheduling order on how we will go forward on the claim remanded to this court. i want one of those two things by 2:00 on friday. any questions? this is mr. gardner. the one thing i request is given that tomorrow is the fourth of july and the difficulty in assembling people from all over the place, is it possible we can do this on monday? the judge, no.