Today is Thursday.

It may be the last day your household can get counted in the #2020Census at My2020Census.gov because this happened last night:
npr.org/2020/10/07/920…
2. If you're wondering why the Trump administration wants to end #2020Census counting early, the court filing to the Supreme Court says it wants to give the Census Bureau a chance to meet the legal deadline of Dec. 31 for reporting new state population counts to the president...
3. ...but since May, Census Bureau career officials have said meeting that Dec. 31 is no longer possible because of the pandemic. We've also passed Sept. 30 and Oct. 5 -- dates that the administration has told courts it needed to stop counting by to meet Dec. 31 deadline...
4. ...so why is the Trump administration so determined to try to meet this Dec. 31 deadline that it's launched multiple failed attempts to end counting early and pushed the bureau to cut down the time for quality checks, increasing the risk of an incomplete and inaccurate count?
5. Trump benefits from getting counts by 12/31 bc even if he's not re-elected, it allows him to try to omit unauthorized immigrants from numbers that determine each state’s share of House seats despite Constitution's requirement to include "whole number of persons in each state."
6. A federal court in New York has ruled that President Trump does not have the authority to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to reapportion House seats among the states.
npr.org/2020/09/10/908…
7. Trump is now trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn that ruling & allow him to try to make an unprecedented change to who counts in the numbers that determine not only each state's share of House seats but also Electoral College votes through 2030.
npr.org/2020/09/16/911…
8. How long the courts allow the the #2020Census schedule to last -- including time for counting and running critical quality checks on the results -- has major implications on how much power your vote has in determining who becomes the next U.S. president in 2024 and 2028.
9. It also affects the quality of the census data used to determine how state and local voting districts are redrawn next year.

But if you're not interested in political power...
10. ...let me remind you that your community's census count is used to determine your community's share of some $1.5 trillion a year in federal tax dollars that fund health care, education, roads and emergency services.

There's a lot of power and money behind the #2020Census.
11. By the way, back in April, it was President Trump who told the public the #2020Census should get *more* time, including a 120-day extension to the Dec. 31 deadline: "This is called a situation that has to be ... I think 120 days isn't nearly enough."
npr.org/2020/09/18/911…
12. And yes, I have the receipt:
c-span.org/video/?c486847…
13. UPDATE: A Supreme Court ruling on the Trump administration's request to end #2020Census counting soon is not expected until after 10 a.m. ET on Oct. 10. That's when a court brief is due from challengers of census schedule changes, per a request from Justice Elena Kagan.

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5 Oct
NEW: Census Bureau staff have briefed the commerce secretary on producing estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population "on more than one occasion" since Trump issued executive order on citizenship data in July 2019, according to an internal document
documentcloud.org/documents/7221… Was anyone at the Census Bureau involved in writing the memo
2. This internal document -- draft congressional hearing prep for the Census Bureau director's 7/29 testimony before the House oversight committee -- was released on Oct. 4 with other memos & emails for a lawsuit over the #2020Census schedule. Here's what else I've found...
3. The week of July 20, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross "asked the Census Bureau...to formally look into the impact" of reporting #2020Census apportionment counts on Dec. 31, according to the same draft congressional hearing prep dated July 27.
documentcloud.org/documents/7221… Apportionment/ Delayed Data Products Last week, it was repor
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3 Oct
Coming to you live around 9:25 a.m. on @NPRWeekend with @nprscottsimon to try to walk you through the twists and turns of the #2020Census saga
npr.org/2020/10/02/919…
@NPRWeekend @nprscottsimon 2. In case you missed my chat with @nprscottsimon, here's a thread on what's going on with the #2020Census...
@NPRWeekend @nprscottsimon 3. Q: Where are we now with the end date for #2020Census counting?

A. 10/31 *for now* because of a court order by a federal judge in California. The order has been appealed to the 9th Circuit, which has set a hearing for 10/5. And Trump admin says it's ready to go to #SCOTUS...
Read 15 tweets
3 Oct
NEW: Census Bureau says it could provide info on unauthorized immigrants in ICE detention centers to the commerce secretary by 12/31 to "partially" implement Trump's apportionment memo, according to unsigned, undated statement by Associate Dir. Al Fontenot
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7221… If the California injunction remains in place, it is unlikel
2. To be clear, the 14th Amendment requires "whole number of persons in each state" to be included in apportionment counts that determine each state's share of House seats. Court blocked Trump's memo calling for exclusion of unauthorized immigrants, and...
npr.org/2020/09/16/911…
3. This unsigned declaration by Al Fontenot (for the Maryland-based lawsuit over the #2020Census schedule) appears to put this Sept. 28 email Census Bureau Deputy Director Ron Jarmin wrote to Secretary Ross in context:
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2 Oct
BREAKING: Counting for the #2020Census must continue through Oct. 31 for now, according to a new court order U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has issued to clarify an earlier order.
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7221… CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, the Court: • CLARIFI
2. Here's my write-up on where the #2020Census stands right now:
npr.org/2020/10/02/919…
3. UPDATE: The Census Bureau has updated its webpage "#2020Census Operational Adjustments Due to COVID-19" with Oct. 31 as the current end date for all counting efforts.
2020census.gov/en/news-events…
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2 Oct
NEW: Trump admin says in court filing it was a "simple & inadvertent oversight" that Census Bureau didn't stop noting "September 30" on its website after a 9/24 court order suspended it as the #2020Census counting end date. I found more "oversight" examples still on the website. The 2020 Census will conclude data collection operations on The 2020 Census will conclude data collection operations on The 2020 Census will conclude data collection operations on
2. Links to where Census Bureau still noted "September 30" as end date for #2020Census data collection operations after a Sept. 24 court order suspended that date:
- 2020census.gov/content/dam/20…
- 2020census.gov/content/dam/20…
- 2020census.gov/content/dam/20…
3. And here's the Trump administration's latest court filing arguing that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh should not issue sanctions against the administration because Trump officials have tried to comply to her court order to "the best of their ability":
documentcloud.org/documents/7221…
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30 Sep
SCOOP: The Trump administration has added its 4th political appointee in 3 months to the Census Bureau — Earl “Trey” Mayfield, newly appointed counselor to the bureau’s director
npr.org/2020/09/30/916…
2. Here's the statement about Trey Mayfield I received from the Census Bureau's chief spokesperson Michael Cook: Mr. Trey Mayfield has joined the US Census Bureau as Counsel
3. The Census Bureau has not answered NPR's question about why Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham needs a dedicated attorney given that lawyers at the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, provide legal services for the bureau.
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