George Jarrod Hazel, left, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and Richard Gus Seeborg, right, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
The U.S. Justice Department was dealt two new setbacks Wednesday in its attempt to replace the government’s legal teams in the litigation confronting the Trump administration’s quest to put a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census.
A Maryland judge rejected the government’s move to install a new team of lawyers there, while a California judge said the new attorneys’ notice of appearance was insufficient. The developments come a day after a New York federal judge called the Justice Department’s motion to withdraw counsel “patently deficient.”
