BREAKING: Trump's Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham is stepping down on Jan. 20, months before the end of his term, after whistleblowers complained he was pushing for "statistically indefensible" data.
— Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang) January 18, 2021
My report (confirming @Tierney_Megan scoop):https://t.co/lEbwWPTNsX
Trump plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census totals used to apportion congressional seats is officially dead
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 17, 2021
Census Bureau announced today that data on apportionment & undocumented population would not be released until after Biden is sworn in https://t.co/ANauKSnPL0
After trying for all four of its years in office to keep undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census, and two SCt rulings along the way, the Trump team gives up, leaving it to Biden team to scuttle that plan. Full details at https://t.co/IpKqBOueXw
— Lyle Denniston (@lylden) January 16, 2021
A scheme to strip congressional seats from diverse states has ended with a whimper, the Justice Department admitted. https://t.co/f6Kkpb9C2P
— Slate (@Slate) January 15, 2021
VICTORY: The Trump administration is abandoning its unconstitutional plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to determine seats in Congress. https://t.co/3JxeC5C0C6
— ACLU (@ACLU) January 13, 2021
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
Sad! 