EXCLUSIVE: The Census Bureau has stopped trying to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants that President Trump requested to alter the census numbers used for reallocating congressional seats & Electoral College votes among the states, @NPR has learnedhttps://t.co/0XoC1gDwTa
— Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang) January 13, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration attorney says numbers used for divvying up congressional seats won't be ready until February.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 4, 2021
Census Will Miss Deadline For Apportionment Data, Potentially Scuttling GOP Power Grab | By Mike Schneider https://t.co/zf4IfvsBDe
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) December 31, 2020
The Trump admin violates federal law today as Commerce fails to deliver census results to POTUS on time.
— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) December 31, 2020
But WORSE is that Trump will then rush to try violating the Constitution by apportioning House seats by 1/20 while excluding undocumented immigrants. https://t.co/0Pw0wBm3sX
Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan https://t.co/3W273Z2fB5
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) December 31, 2020
New: Commerce Dept IG says Census Bureau cut corners with quality control, calling into question results for “more than 500,000” households.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) December 30, 2020
IG cited compressed time schedule after Trump admin truncated 2020 census in apparent effort to exclude some undocumented immigrants
An important point that kinda got lost in the post-election craziness: the likelihood the Census won't have apportionment counts ready until at least Jan. 26 negates any opportunity for the Trump admin to alter data (remove undocumented residents, etc.) https://t.co/RmxB8Hixfg
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 16, 2020
Opinion: The 2020 Census has faced unprecedented challenges. The deadline must be moved. https://t.co/taeQfBdfg3
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 1, 2020
Today the Supreme Court hears arguments in the challenge to President Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count – a move that would have a tremendous impact on reapportionment and federal funding. #SCOTUS
— Kimberly Atkins (@KimberlyEAtkins) November 30, 2020
A Census Bureau advisory panel issues recommendations on differential privacy, quality metrics and other important topics related to the 2020 census https://t.co/oL0JAsgi1z
— All Things Census (@allthingscensus) March 20, 2021