The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the census headcount of every U.S. resident from continuing through the end of October, according to an Associated Press report.
The Trump administration had asked the court to suspend a lower court order permitting the 2020 census to continue, stating the U.S. Census Bureau needed time to compile the numbers before a congressionally mandated year-end deadline. A coalition of local governments and civil rights groups argue that minorities and others in hard-to-count communities would be missed if the count ended early.
