The Daily Fuckup — July 5, 2019

Edition · July 5, 2019

The Daily Fuckup — July 5, 2019

1 verified report published on July 5, 2019.

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Closing take

July 5 was less a reset than a sequel to a losing case: the administration had already been told its rationale was broken, and it still sounded determined to keep throwing elbows at the judiciary. That’s not policy. That’s a tantrum with a filing deadline.

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Trump Floats a Census End-Run After the Court Said No

Census end-run Confidence 5/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The White House spent July 5 trying to revive its citizenship-question push after the Supreme Court rejected the administration’s stated rationale for adding it to the 2020 census. Trump said he was considering an executive order or other options, even as court filings showed the departments of Justice and Commerce were still looking for a way to keep the question alive. The move turned a legal defeat into a public embarrassment and set off another round of warnings that the administration was trying to bulldoze a court loss instead of accepting it.

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