No one knows for sure when counting for the 2020 census is set to end.
A day after the Census Bureau fired off a one-sentence tweet announcing Oct. 5 as its new “target date” for ending all efforts to tally the country’s residents, a federal judge said she thinks the new schedule is “a violation” of her court order.
“The Oct. 5 date is doing exactly what I enjoined the defendants from doing,” said U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in Northern California Tuesday during a virtual court conference for a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shorten the census schedule.
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