The Con-census, is that the census is a con.
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Problem is they’re going to use (our) tax dollars to pay triple overtime to make up documentation.
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My thoughts exactly. If they had any reason that would pass the stink test, it would not take a day and a half to present all that to the court. I think that is what the judge was saying.
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Even though you’re given a week, you can’t come up with a reason for what you tried doing?
Jesus, what kind of incompetents are these? A six year old confronted by his mom can come with a lie a lot faster than that.
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I just read it as, among other things, they’re lazy and don’t want to work, they’ve been winging things since the traitor got selected by Putin.
I’ve worked in a lot of offices in my time, Republicans should never work in them.
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IOW: Wake up Wilbur, and get your ass to court.
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I could see how they need more time. I learned from watching Mister Ed that guys named Wilbur are not the brightest bulbs in the box.
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“Judge Rejects Trump Admin Plea That It Can’t Possibly Explain Its Census Decision…”
To be fair, the Trump Administration can’t explain any of its decisions.
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And, imagine, not one single solitary damn engineer in the Trump administration–Nothing but fuckups all the way down.
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Just a hunch, but I’d go with that second one.
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Probably part of it as well. I also think they’re going to get caught with their pants down. When your knee-jerk reaction is always to delay, it’s not unheard of for people to pretend there’s a voluminous record to be assembled and that they’re going to need all sorts of time to do so.
Here, I don’t think there’s a voluminous record. I think it’s actually pretty simple, straight forward, easily found and assembled and not terribly voluminous…but it contains damning documents…because what they wanted done was a foregone conclusion, not something that required investigation, analysis and debate. Judge Koh is calling their bluff and I fucking love it.
What I expect will happen now is that, in light of the time limited scope of the first phase, what they produce will be scant compared to what would normally be expected and it will obvious that whatever they did produce is still incomplete for that time period, with glaring holes where they knew damn well they couldn’t let damning documents be made public. At that point, we’ll once again start hearing all about executive privilege and confidentiality arguments and the POTUS not being subject to judicial scrutiny, oversight and harassment, etc.
The other option is to go overboard with the interpretation of the word 'indirectly" and produce a pile of irrelevant nonsense in an attempt to bury everything bad by burying everyone who will have to review it in a mountain of paper. That’s probably a bad tactic here because (a) it really wouldn’t work other than to achieve some delay and (b) you should never produce things you haven’t reviewed yourself, and these fuckers are not only lazy, but stupid, and producing a mountain of paper would probably end up including damning information…maybe even damning information on an entirely different subject.
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Law and order?
Republicans can’t even police the many criminals in their own party!
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Or they have a secret deep state kind of rationale that they don’t want to say out loud.
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I’ve said it before but Wilbur always looks like he should be in a Dickens novel, kicking a widow and her five children out into the snow
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Shorter GOP: “If we can’t own 'em, we don’t wanna count 'em.”
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Man, there is a shit ton of the kind of “should have resigned rather than do it” shameful lawyering by DoJ disclosed in that order that’s become the norm these last few years.
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Yes, but sans the redemptive qualities of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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Agree with all of this. And my money is on “stonewall” rather than “bury 'em.” I predict political appointees are going to extraordinarily hands-on in making discovery production decisions here.
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It’s not just Scrooge. Ross looks like ALL of the villains, especially Uriah Heep.
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To be fair, I’m not sure the Trump administration actually makes “decisions.”
Jared’s in charge of the PPE. No he isn’t. Yes he is! No he isn’t!.
Here comes our awesome health plan/ACA replacement! Uh, we’re not exactly sure what it is.OK, here it comes now, for real! OK, maybe not!
And so on.
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