threatening to torch whatever credibility the justice department has left because of what he s doing. and that will be a huge, huge error for the country and for him. so let me ask you something. the justice department lawyers either pull back on this or they go back to the court and try to get this done. but there s no chance that someone in the government is trying to is going to try and get that citizenship question on the census extrajudicially, right? going around the courts. doing something because i feel like that would be illegal. well, nothing that this administration does at this point surprises me. and we ve even had a member of congress, a sitting member of congress, say yeah, go ahead, defy the federal courts, president trump, and do the right thing, add the citizenship question. i mean, this administration s relationship to the rule of law is so tenuous, and i am worried about it. and i think all americans should be because the crown jewel of our american democrac
credibility the justice department has left because of what he s doing. and that will be a huge, huge error for the country and for him. so let me ask you something. the justice department lawyers either pull back on this or they go back to the court and try to get this done. but there s no chance that someone in the government is trying to is going to try and get that citizenship question on the census extrajudicially, right? going around the courts. doing something because i feel like that would be illegal. well, nothing that this administration does at this point surprises me. and we ve even had a member of congress, a sitting member of congress, say yeah, go ahead, defy the federal courts, president trump, and do the right thing, add the citizenship question. i mean, this administration s relationship to the rule of law is so tenuous, and i am worried about it. and i think all americans should be because the crown jewel of our american democracy is our federal judiciary.
go back to the court and try to get this done. but there s no chance that someone in the government is trying to is going to try and get that citizenship question on the census extrajudicially, right? going around the courts. doing something because i feel like that would be illegal. well, nothing that this administration does at this point surprises me. and we ve even had a member of congress, a sitting member of congress, say yeah, go ahead, defy the federal courts, president trump, and do the right thing, add the citizenship question. i mean, this administration s relationship to the rule of law is so tenuous, and i am worried about it. and i think all americans should be because the crown jewel of our american democracy is our federal judiciary. and last week they stood up for the rights of all americans to be counted and to say president trump, you gave us a reason that was utterly pretextual and this question can t be added.