Rachel Maddow is reading the transcript of the hearing

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

in which nobody could figure out what to do about Trump's tweet about the census question.

[malaise]

1. I'm lovin' it

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What an effin' goat rodeo.

I'd rather clean porta-potties in August than be a lawyer for Trump's DoJ.

[malaise]

3. He's raving mad - he seriously believes he can ignore all laws

and even the Constitution

[elleng]

4. thanks to twitter.

[Amaryllis]

14. So far that strategy has worked for him in most cases.

[malaise]

15. Justice is coming n/t

[orangecrush]

19. As psychopaths do.

No suprise - the laws don't apply to him.

[Mme. Defarge]

17. But...

how do you really feel?

[CincyDem]

5. I read it on line earlier today...

...and in my head, I heard Rachel reading it. lol

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. LOL! It's here if you want to read it again.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6182647-Census-Hearing-Transcript-7-3.html

[malaise]

8. I read it on DU earlier

The king of Cons is stark raving mad with power that he does not have - it would be comical if it were not so serious.

[Celerity]

7. I think he is going to wilfully disobey any court ruling and go ahead and put it on the census.

He will tweet, to paraphrase Stalin,

'The Supreme Court? How many divisions do they have?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. But he can't personally, physically, put it on the census. That's the job

of the Commerce Department, and if that deranged old fossil Wilbur Ross defies the court and tells the printer to do it anyhow, he'd be held in contempt of court. Does he love Trump enough to risk that? He's ancient and he's richer than God, so why would he stick his wrinkly old neck out for Trump?

[MiniMe]

20. Who's going to prosecute him?

That is the problem, nobody has any balls

[durablend]

22. +1

It's only a crime if someone's willing to do something about it. Otherwise

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. as I have following it

the commerce Dept. is moving ahead with the census rollout with out the question.
It's just Trump that is demanding the question, probably Miller is in the mix.

[lame54]

9. The judge gave them till 2pm Friday...

To convince him

It's not over yet

[BKDem]

11. Either this is literal and obvious obstruction of justice...

...or those words have no meaning in Donald Trump's America.

This cannot stand or we are doomed to be ruled by tweets (tweets!) from a corrupt, unstable autocrat.

Happy Birthday, America. I hope it's not our last.

[triron]

23. We have been saying this now for quite a while. So far, 'too soon to impeach'.

[empedocles]

12. This is what Rachel is good at.

I noticed that so far, Rachel is only referring to a 'court order', [SDNY].

[As opposed to saying trump is vasically tweeting, so what if the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled against us. traitortrump gets crazier every week].

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. It's actually the Southern District of Maryland.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6182647-Census-Hearing-Transcript-7-3.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. I thought it was especially interesting that Jody Hunt, who is now the head

of the DoJ's civil division, was the one who said the DoJ had been directed to find a way around the Supreme Court's decision to get the question on the census. Rachel pointed out that Hunt used to be Jeff Sessions' chief of staff, and had a front-row seat for the spectacle of Trump's non-stop berating, harassing and finally firing of his boss - and as a result, Hunt now knows that when Trump says shit, he has to ask what color.

[Mme. Defarge]

18. Is this why Pence was suddenly called back to D.C.?

Someone on team trump put out the announcement the the census would not have a citizenship question and then trump had a meltdown? Or maybe a complete psychotic break?

[triron]

21. She said it seemed like science fiction. It's a fucking nightmare if you ask me.