Category Archives: census litigation

“Supreme Court Speeds Up Case On Trump’s Push To Alter Census For House Seats”; But Still a Good Chance Trump Loses Case

October 16, 2020, 2:51 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NPR: The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s request to speed up the appeal of a lower court ruling that is blocking the president’s attempt to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to reallocate seats… Continue reading

Over Justice Sotomayor’s Dissent, Supreme Court Will Let the Census Count End Earlier Than Original October 31 Date

October 13, 2020, 1:55 pmcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can find the order here.

“Trump Officials Ask Supreme Court To Block Order That Extends Census Counting”

October 8, 2020, 8:13 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow counting for the 2020 census to end soon.In an emergency request on Wednesday, Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall said that the Census Bureau must immediately… Continue reading

“In a new ruling, judge says census count must continue through October”

October 2, 2020, 3:32 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

WaPo: A federal judge has ordered that the 2020 Census count continue until Oct. 31, blocking for now the government’s efforts to complete the survey in time to deliver apportionment data to the president by the end of the year.The… Continue reading

“Supreme Court Expedites Review of Trump Appeal Over Census Count”

September 30, 2020, 1:17 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

Greg Stohr: The U.S. Supreme Court put a clash over undocumented immigrants and the census on a fast track, granting a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to expedite handling of his appeal.Trump is trying to exclude undocumented immigrants from… Continue reading

“Commerce Secretary Ross says 2020 census will end Oct. 5 despite court order”

September 28, 2020, 10:21 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

NBC News: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross says the 2020 census will end Oct. 5, despite a federal judge’s ruling last week allowing the head count of every U.S. resident to continue through the end of October, according to… Continue reading

“Court Orders Census Counting To Continue Through Oct. 31; Appeal Expected”

September 25, 2020, 7:26 amcensus litigationRick Hasen

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: A federal court has ordered the Trump administration to abandon last-minute changes to the 2020 census schedule and extend the time for counting for an additional month.The preliminary injunction issued Thursday by U.S. District… Continue reading

Trump Administration Wants Supreme Court to Hear Census Apportionment Case in December

September 22, 2020, 10:06 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Motion to expedite.

“Even Trump’s Own Census Director Doesn’t Know Who Ordered The Count Rushed”

September 22, 2020, 7:35 amcensus litigationRick Hasen

TPM: The Trump administration’s decision to truncate the 2020 census “poses a myriad of risks” to the count’s accuracy and completeness, an inspector general report said Monday.Top Census Bureau officials, including its President Trump-appointed director Steve Dillingham, are… Continue reading

“Census Could Look ‘Manipulated’ If Cut Short By Trump Officials, Bureau Warned”

September 20, 2020, 8:53 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: Weeks before the Trump administration announced it was cutting the 2020 census schedule short, career officials at the Census Bureau attempted to send signal flares about how that last-minute decision would lead to “fatal” data… Continue reading

Breaking: Three-Judge Court Unanimously Enjoins Trump Order to Report Non-Citizen Numbers for Apportionment Purposes from the Census Count; Case Likely Headed to SCOTUS

September 10, 2020, 2:27 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

From the court decision: For the reasons that follow, Plaintiffs are entitled to summary judgment. The Presidential Memorandum violates the statutes governing the census and apportionment in two clear respects. First, pursuant to the virtually automatic scheme established by… Continue reading

“Civil Rights Groups Secure Court Order to Stop Trump’s Rushed and Incomplete Census Count”

September 5, 2020, 8:05 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

Release: (SAN FRANCISCO) – The Trump administration’s last-minute move to terminate 2020 census operations would likely lead to a massive undercount of millions of people in the United States – many of them African-American, immigrants and other people of color… Continue reading

“As Census Count Resumes, Doubts About Accuracy Continue to Grow; Officials project optimism. But a chorus of experts says the pandemic and politics could lead to a deeply flawed count.”

August 24, 2020, 10:18 amcensus litigationRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT.

“Mail Delays Could Hurt The Census, Too”

August 20, 2020, 8:08 amcensus litigationRick Hasen

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: Under pressure from the Trump administration to deliver 2020 census results by the end of this year, the U.S. Census Bureau has set a cutoff date for receiving paper forms for the once-a-decade head… Continue reading