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

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

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

Michael Wines for the NYT.

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

Hansi Lo Wang: The Census Bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month shorter than previously announced, the bureau’s director confirmed Monday in a statement. That includes critical door-knocking efforts and… Continue reading

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: The Census Bureau is cutting short critical door-knocking efforts for the 2020 census amid growing concerns among Democrats in Congress that the White House is pressuring the bureau to wrap up counting soon for political… Continue reading

Marty Lederman deep dive begins here: Contrary to what you might have read, President Trump’s “Memorandum on Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census,” which he issued yesterday, doesn’t change the way the Department of… Continue reading

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: President Trump releaseda memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country — the exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used to… Continue reading

AP reports.

You can read the 23-page ruling here. Two snippets: “In other words, Defendants’ failure to produce the documents was caused by a lapse that would make a first-year litigation associate wince.”.. At the end of the day, the NGO… Continue reading

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