CENSUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Friday from ending the 2020 census a month early, the latest twist in years of political and legal warfare over perhaps the most contested population count in a century…
The ruling came after evidence filed this week showed that top Census Bureau officials believed ending the head count early would seriously endanger its accuracy…
The Trump administration had argued that it needed to end census-taking early to begin processing state-by-state population data or it would miss a statutory Dec. 31 deadline for sending population figures to President Trump…
Mr. Trump had formally asked Congress this spring to extend the December deadline to April 2021, citing delays in the census caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Democratic-controlled House registered its approval, but the Republican-controlled Senate has not acted on the request, leaving the administration leeway to order the shorter count.”
-Michael Wines, “Federal Judge Bars Trump Administration From Ending Census Early,” nytimes.com, Sep. 25, 2020