The Trump administration was granted permission to end counting for the 2020 census early—tonight, Thursday, Oct. 15. Be sure you're counted:
The Trump administration was granted permission to end counting for the 2020 census early—on Oct. 15—after the Supreme Court approved a request to suspend a lower court order that extended the count’s schedule.
“will result in irreversible damage,” said Kristen Clarke of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, part of the legal team who brought the original lawsuit to extend the census schedulwill likely lead to an undercounting of undocumented immigrants—a result that would generally benefit Republicans in the drawing of political districts.Today is the last full day to fill out the Census.
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