A lawsuit contended the Census Bureau changed its schedule because of a directive from President Trump and that the change would mean an undercount of minorities.
The U.S. Census Bureau, for now, must stop following a plan that would have it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September, according to a federal judge’s order.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose late Saturday issued a temporary restraining order against the Census Bureau and the Commerce Department, which oversees the agency. The order stops the Census Bureau from winding down operations until a court hearing is held Sept. 17. The lawsuit that resulted in the order says that, in winding down for an earlier deadline, the bureau would overlook minority communities in the census. It contends the bureau changed its schedule because of a directive from President Trump to exclude people in the country illegally from the numbers used in redrawing congressional districts.
The once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident helps determine how $1.5 trillion in federal funding is distributed and how many congressional seats each state gets in a process known as apportionment.
Because of the pandemic, the Census Bureau pushed back ending the count from the end of July to the end of October and asked Congress to extend the deadline for turning in the apportionment numbers from December, as required by law, into next spring. When the Republican-controlled Senate failed to take up the request, the bureau created a revised schedule that had the census ending in September, according to the statistical agency.
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