Judge blasts US lawyers for stalling census trial ruling

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has issued a stinging rebuke to government lawyers in a trial over adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, saying “enough is enough” with their efforts to delay his ruling.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in New York rejected the latest request Tuesday, calling the federal government’s tactics strange, puzzling, extraordinary, most galling and an insult to the court’s intelligence.
The Justice Department declined to comment