Apologies for repeated tweets, but I'm on my phone and can't edit as I would like. This just strikes me as important as well as explanatory. Impossible to overstate how bad this, especially to lawyers. I'm watching "Endeavour" on PBS. It's a story of police corruption. That's how this DOJ story feels.Per this thread the team exiting the case includes a top POLITICAL APPOINTEE, Deputy Assistant Attorney General James Burnham. It's one thing -- terrible and rare! -- for a career lawyer to refuse to participate; it's far worse when even someone on POTUS's team won't play along. https://t.co/KryfgxKIql— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 8, 2019
James Burnham was in the White House Counsel’s Office from January 2017 to April 2019. If *he* won’t advance Trump’s new arguments, something is rotten. https://t.co/vritZKUwfT pic.twitter.com/5adwkwWxyV— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 8, 2019
Why are Burnham and others refusing to contnue on the case? Probably two reasons. First, they're being asked to make wholly implausible arguments. This is extraordinary rare but it's happened before in this administration, in the Obamacare case currently before the Fifth Circuit.— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 8, 2019
Of course, in "Endeavour," the good guys win and all's well that ends well. Would that real life were like that.The second, even bigger reason these DOJ lawyers are quitting the case is to avoid having to contradict prior representations to the courts that the Census had to be finalized by 6/30. That type of thing can lead to sanctions and discipline. https://t.co/nlOlMyAbyz— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 8, 2019
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