Law requires results of census to be delivered to Congress by December 31. The first time in its 44-year history, the Census Bureau has missed the end-of-year deadline.…
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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to President’s Census Plan
“Judicial resolution of this dispute is premature,” the Court said. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit intended to block President Donald Trump’s plan to…
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Census Case Back in District Court
Full trial in 2021 expected. The Supreme Court had already closed a case on the 2020 census in favor of the president’s administration, abruptly ending official counting in…
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Census Count Finished with 99.98% Coverage
Slight undercount for the first time since 1990. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 99.98% of addresses and housing units nationwide were accounted for by the close of…
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Supreme Court Allows Administration to End Census
Count will stop October 15. The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would be upholding the Trump Administration’s plan to end the count of the 2020 census…
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Federal Judge Suspends Truncated Census Deadline
Judge Koh says deadline would produce “inaccurate results.” Pre-pandemic, the Census Bureau had estimated it would have census results by July. As the pandemic worsened in April, its…
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President Seeks Ruling on Census Exclusions
He is looking for authority to exclude illegal immigrants from official count. There remain only days for Americans to complete their census questionnaire and send it in. The…
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U.S. Census Director Announces Deadline
Request for extension stalled in Congress. As the pandemic set in this past spring, the U.S. Census Bureau had formally requested an extension on their final count, moving…
Read MoreCounting Illegal Immigrants for Congressional Districting Barred
Redrawing districts should not include numbers of illegal immigrants. On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted for the purposes of…
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2020 Census Field Operations Delayed
Census Bureau will wait until April to make in-person visits. On Wednesday, the Census Bureau announced that it would be postponing the start of field operations that are…
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