MANHATTAN (CN) — Late last month, President Trump made a pair of changes to the census in rapid succession, issuing a memo excluding undocumented immigrants from political apportionment and bumping up the deadline for in-person interviews. Those late-breaking changes led a federal judge Wednesday to fast-track the schedule of a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new policy. “It is what it is,” U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman told attorneys for the government, perhaps unintentionally echoing the words Trump recently told an Axios reporter in describing the...…MANHATTAN (CN) — Late last month, President Trump made a pair of changes to the census in rapid succession, issuing a memo excluding undocumented immigrants from political apportionment and bumping up the deadline for in-person interviews. Those late-breaking changes led a federal judge Wednesday to fast-track the schedule of a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new policy. “It is what it is,” U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman told attorneys for the government, perhaps unintentionally echoing the words Trump recently told an Axios reporter in describing the...WW…

(CN) — When Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman pushed back against Attorney General Bill Barr’s late on Friday night, the standoff between a top prosecutor and the Trump administration had a startling sense of déjà vu.Three years apart, two Manhattan U.S. attorneys refused requests from Washington to quietly step down from their posts in extraordinary flare-ups of rebellion. Both involved whispers of political interference with cases of interest to the president. Both resulted in the prosecutors being fired, and both men wound up replaced by their trusted deputies.Berman’s crusading...…(CN) — When Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman pushed back against Attorney General Bill Barr’s late on Friday night, the standoff between a top prosecutor and the Trump administration had a startling sense of déjà vu.Three years apart, two Manhattan U.S. attorneys refused requests from Washington to quietly step down from their posts in extraordinary flare-ups of rebellion. Both involved whispers of political interference with cases of interest to the president. Both resulted in the prosecutors being fired, and both men wound up replaced by their trusted deputies.Berman’s crusading...WW…