Second judge won't let Justice Department lawyers swap out on census case

This is yet another blow to the Trump administration over the citizenship question fight

Washington A second federal judge won't let Justice Department lawyers swap out in the renewed census fight, in yet another blow to the Trump administration over the citizenship question fight.

The"court cannot fathom how it would be possible, at this juncture, for a wholesale change in Defendants' representation not to have some impact on the orderly resolution of these proceedings," Judge George Hazel wrote Wednesday."Defendants must realize that a change in counsel does not create a clean slate for a party to proceed as if prior representations made to the Court were not in fact made," added the Maryland-based Hazel.

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