BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules the Trump administration can end 2020Census counting soon.
Protestors holding signs about the 2020 census gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. in 2019.Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images
, 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.for the count have left local communities and the bureau's workers across the country unsure of how much longer they can take part in a national head count already upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
More time, judges have ruled, would give the bureau a better chance of getting an accurate and complete count of the country's residents, which is used to determine how political representation and federal funding are distributed among the states over the next decade. Since May, however, career officials at the bureau have warned that the agency can no longer meet the Dec. 31 reporting deadline because of the pandemic. Judges in lower courts have also noted that the national counts from the years 1810 through 1840 were delivered late and Congress later stepped in to approve deadline extensions.
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