The DOJ’s big screwups, briefly explained |
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Welcome to The Logoff: It has been a bad week for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, after basic lawyering mistakes set back the president’s agenda on two fronts.
What happened? On Tuesday, Texas’s new congressional map was struck down by a Trump-appointed judge as a racial gerrymander. That decision isn’t the final word on the case, as the Supreme Court could still weigh in — but, as my colleague Ian Millhiser reports, it’s quite possible SCOTUS will side with the lower court due to a glaring........