An appeals court left in place on Wednesday a federal judge’s order extending to the end of the month the data collection operations for the 2020 census. But the appellate decision was nonetheless a partial victory for the Trump administration’s efforts to speed up the 2020 count, and leaves the administration plenty of room to continue to monkey around with the process.
This won’t end with this court case, no matter how the SC rules. Next year, there will be lawsuits as the Biden administration tries to fix any funny business with the count and apportionment, and lawsuits against the red states that try to implement ways to ignore undocumented immigrants or shift power away from the cities through gerrymandering. The manipulation of the Census will just make all of this worse…which is the intent of the Republicans, they want to break the system as much as they can so they control it into the future.
Nope. Court cases could go on for years. Only solution is to redo the census in 2022.
One of them has too little hair, one of them has too much hair, and one of them has just the right amount of hair.
Goldilocks and the Barr and Will Barr.
I would imagine that in spite of the current laws governing the census and apportionment, it could all be made moot by the next Congress. We’ll see what happens…