Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration To End Census Early

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The Trump administration can end counting for the 2020 Census after the Supreme Court approved a request for now to suspend

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NPR: “The high court’s ruling, following an emergency request the Justice Department made last week, is the latest turn in a roller coaster of a legal fight over the timeline for the count.”
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The Trump administration can end counting for the 2020 Census after the Supreme Court approved a request for now to suspend a lower court order that extended the count’s schedule.

The high court’s ruling, following an emergency request the Justice Department made last week, is the latest turn in a roller coaster of a legal fight over the timeline for the count.

Last-minute changes by the Census Bureau and its skirting of an earlier court order for the count have left local communities and the bureau’s workers across the U.S. unsure of how much longer they can take part in a national head count already upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

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