Source: Michael Macagnone, ROLL CALL, 9/25/20


Census Bureau employees rushing to wrap up the 2020 count have been given a reprieve. Workers may continue counting beyond Sept. 30, according to a federal judge's order that bars the Trump administration from trying to end the 2020 count a month early. The plaintiffs, led by the National Urban League, had argued that by abandoning the effort to extend in-person counting to Oct. 31, and the ultimate deadline for delivering census results to April 30, the Trump administration risks undercounting typically underrepresented communities and violating administrative law.

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