Census Bureau announces Thursday deadline following Supreme Court ruling

The Census Bureau announced Tuesday night that, following an order from the Supreme Court, the bureau’s data collection efforts would end Thursday.

Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall sent an application for a stay to the Supreme Court last week that would allow the Census Bureau to wrap up its data collection operations before Oct. 31 so that census data can be sent to President Trump by the statutory Dec. 31 deadline. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham moved that deadline to April 30 in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.