Lawrence Hurley is a senior Supreme Court reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Speaking to a federal judge in July 2019, a flummoxed career Justice Department lawyer made a statement that summed up former President Donald Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip and often chaotic form of governance. “The tweet this morning was the first I had heard of the president’s position on this issue,” Joshua Gardner told Maryland-based Judge George Hazel.
“What we are preparing for in the chance of a second Trump administration is that, frankly, the legal maneuvers they would try to do would be better organized,” he said. In the citizenship question case and others in the first term, “the lawyers were kind of playing catchup with the rationale that was coming down from the administration,” he added.
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