The Official 2020 Census Thread

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Census Bureau has a constitutional mandate to produce accurate population numbers. This constitutional mandate supersedes any statutory regulation. The law can't force the Census Bureau to produce inaccurate numbers, that would be blatantly unconstitutional.

The Census Bureau is a creation of the Congress.

The Congress has the constitutional mandate under the necessary and proper clause to cause an enumeration to be done in a timely manner. Whether numbers are accurate enough is a political decisions.

The Census Bureau in essence has gone rogue. Ohio has sued the proper executive branch agencies.

Some delay was definitely inevitable and rational, but a delay until freaking October is just ridicolous.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Census Bureau has a constitutional mandate to produce accurate population numbers. This constitutional mandate supersedes any statutory regulation. The law can't force the Census Bureau to produce inaccurate numbers, that would be blatantly unconstitutional.

The Census Bureau is a creation of the Congress.

The Congress has the constitutional mandate under the necessary and proper clause to cause an enumeration to be done in a timely manner. Whether numbers are accurate enough is a political decisions.

The Census Bureau in essence has gone rogue. Ohio has sued the proper executive branch agencies.

Some delay was definitely inevitable and rational, but a delay until freaking October is just ridicolous.

I highly doubt they will take that long.

Once they have the population numbers out by April 30, it won’t take another 5 months to produce redistricting data.

Maybe July will be the release date.

September 30 is just the last possible date according to the CB.

A September 30 release date must be ruled out entirely.
Ohio's lawsuit places pressure on the agency to do things faster. As far as I understand it, a three month delay occurred in the process of reaching people in the census, so it only makes sense there is only a three month delay in releasing the counts.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Census Bureau has a constitutional mandate to produce accurate population numbers. This constitutional mandate supersedes any statutory regulation. The law can't force the Census Bureau to produce inaccurate numbers, that would be blatantly unconstitutional.

The Census Bureau is a creation of the Congress.

The Congress has the constitutional mandate under the necessary and proper clause to cause an enumeration to be done in a timely manner. Whether numbers are accurate enough is a political decisions.

The Census Bureau in essence has gone rogue. Ohio has sued the proper executive branch agencies.

Some delay was definitely inevitable and rational, but a delay until freaking October is just ridicolous.

I highly doubt they will take that long.

Once they have the population numbers out by April 30, it won’t take another 5 months to produce redistricting data.

Maybe July will be the release date.

September 30 is just the last possible date according to the CB.

A September 30 release date must be ruled out entirely.
Ohio's lawsuit places pressure on the agency to do things faster. As far as I understand it, a three month delay occurred in the process of reaching people in the census, so it only makes sense there is only a three month delay in releasing the counts.

I think they will have something ready on the population count front in just over a month.

April 30 is also a deadline, which doesn’t mean they will release it on that day.

Well, I suppose there is a world's difference in them having a population count ready by July as opposed to August or September.