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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
BREAKING: The Supreme Court is setting aside for now a lower court order that extended #2020Census counting through Oct. 31, allowing the Trump administration to end counting soon
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7230…
2. Questions I am waiting for the @uscensusbureau to answer:

When does it plan to stop collecting self-responses online and over the phone?

When is the postmark deadline and the last day it will accept paper forms?

When does it plan to stop field data collection activities?
@uscensusbureau 3. More questions I am waiting for the @uscensusbureau to answer:

How many nonresponse followup cases are incomplete as of Oct. 13?

How many enumerators are employed by the Census Bureau as of Oct. 13?
@uscensusbureau 4. Here's my write-up on what we know for now about the #2020Census:
npr.org/2020/10/13/921…
@uscensusbureau 5. UPDATE:

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Hansi Lo Wang • 11:59 p.m. HT Profile picture
14 Oct
NEW: DOJ attorney John Coghlan tells a federal court in Maryland the Trump admin doesn't know what groups of unauthorized immigrants — other than those in ICE detention centers — it could feasibly exclude from the census numbers used to reallocate House seats per Trump's memo.
2. But the three-judge court in Maryland sounded very skeptical that the Census Bureau does not have plans given what the bureau's Associate Director Al Fontenot said in this court filing:
3. At multiple points, the 3-judge court asked, and DOJ attorney John Coghlan avoided directly answering, what "other Presidential Memorandum–related outputs" the Census Bureau plans to provide to the commerce secretary by Jan. 11, 2021. Coghlan said it's a "dynamic" process.
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Hansi Lo Wang • 11:59 p.m. HT Profile picture
14 Oct
Today is Wednesday.

Your household has less than 48 hours to get counted in the #2020Census at My2020Census.gov before the Trump administration shuts it down after 11:59 p.m. Hawaii time on Oct. 15.
npr.org/2020/10/13/921…
2. To call in a #2020Census response, your household has until 2 a.m. ET on Oct. 16 to use these toll-free numbers:

English 844-330-2020
Español 844-468-2020

Telephone Display Device:
844-467-2020

For #PuertoRico residents:
English 844-418-2020
Español 844-426-2020 Image
3. 10 pm ET, 10/15:
普通话 844-391-2020
粤语 844-398-2020
tiếng Việt 844-461-2020
한국어 844-392-2020
pусский 844-417-2020
العربية:844-416-2020
Tagalog 844-478-2020
Polski 844-479-2020
Français 844-494-2020
Kreyòl Ayisyen 844-477-2020
Português 844-474-2020
日本語 844-460-2020 Image
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Hansi Lo Wang • 11:59 p.m. HT Profile picture
8 Oct
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...
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Hansi Lo Wang • 11:59 p.m. HT Profile picture
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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Hansi Lo Wang • 11:59 p.m. HT Profile picture
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...
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Hansi Lo Wang • 11:59 p.m. HT Profile picture
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
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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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