A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on June 27, 2019.
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The big theme of the day was simple: when Trump-world tries to jam politics into process, courts eventually start asking ugly questions. On June 27, 2019, the answers were not flattering.
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The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census after finding the government’s explanation for the move didn’t hold up. The decision didn’t kill the idea forever, but it blew a hole in the administration’s immediate timeline and gave critics a fresh argument that the whole project was built on pretext.