Cleveland.com: A federal judge has dismissed Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s lawsuit that sought to force the U.S.Census Bureau to provide its results by a March 31 legal deadline, six months earlier than Census officials said was possible.Judge Thomas… Continue reading

NYT: The delivery date for the 2020 census data used in redistricting, delayed first by the coronavirus pandemic and then by the Trump administration’s interference, now is so late that it threatens to scramble the 2022 elections, including races for… Continue reading

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: One of President Biden’s first executive actions has reversed former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented policy of altering a key census count by excluding unauthorized immigrants. The change ensures that the U.S. continues to follow more… Continue reading

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: The Trump-appointed director of the U.S. Census Bureau is stepping down close to a week after whistleblower complaints about his role in attempting to rush out an incomplete data report about noncitizens became public.In an… Continue reading

AP: Government attorneys and municipalities fighting over the 2020 census asked a judge Friday to put their court case on hold, as Department of Justice attorneys confirmed the Census Bureau for now will not release numbers that could be used… Continue reading

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: The U.S. Census Bureau has halted all work on President Trump’s directive to produce a state-by-state count of unauthorized immigrants that would have been used to alter a key set of census numbers, NPR… Continue reading

Politico: A Justice Department attorney said Monday that the census population count used to apportion House seats for the next decade may not be ready until February, which would thwart President Donald Trump’s plans to exclude certain immigrant populations from… Continue reading

AP: The Census Bureau will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, a delay that could undermine President Donald Trump’s efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the… Continue reading

Election Data Services analysis: New Census Bureau population estimates for 2020 released today shows a subtle but significant change in the upcoming apportionment process, that is front and center in the Supreme Court’s decision last week in New York… Continue reading

Michael Wines and Emily Bazelon for the NYT: Census Bureau experts have uncovered serious flaws in a section of the 2020 head count that potentially affect the enumeration of millions, according to people familiar with the census operations, delaying still… Continue reading

CNN: Census Bureau officials discovered data issues while working through 2020 Census responses, which include several “high complexity” problems and threaten to delay completion of a key tally until February, according to a new set of internal Census documents shared… Continue reading