Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration's Renewed Efforts to End Census Early

Government Executive: A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Census Bureau’s decennial count of everyone in the country before Oct. 31, setting up a potential fight before the Supreme Court.

The judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit avoided throwing a new wrench into a decennial count that has already endured a series of disruptions in the form of deadline changes and a global pandemic. They did grant a stay on part of a lower court’s previously issued injunction, blocking an order that would have required Census to deliver data after its statutory deadline of Dec. 31.

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