Late last month, the Supreme Court determined that the Trump administration liedabout its real reason for wanting to add a question to the 2020 census form asking if each respondent is a U.S. citizen.
Less than two weeks later, as a team of lawyers led by the ACLU laid out in a remarkable brief filed in a federal district court, Trump’s Justice Department is entangled in an entirely different web of deceit. The brief, moreover, references a forthcoming motion for sanctions against the government attorneys who litigated this case.
There is a lesson here for officials throughout the government. If you play ball with Donald Trump, you’re likely to get smacked with a fastball right across your temple.
View the complete July 7 article by Ian Millhiser on the ThinkProgress website here.