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BREAKING: As of Dec. 29, the Census Bureau's expected release date for the 1st set of 2020 census results is Feb. 9 & may be pushed back further bc of newly discovered irregularities in the census records, DOJ attorney John Coghlan tells a federal judge during a court conference
2. New anomalies were recently discovered in the census records, DOJ John Coghlan said during the court conference for the Nat'l Urban League-led lawsuit over the census schedule. Coghlan emphasized all dates are tentative as the Census Bureau keeps working on fixing anomalies.
3. The 1st set of 2020 census results are the new state population counts that were due to the president by Dec. 31 and are used to reapportion House seats and Electoral College votes among the states.
4. They're also the numbers President Trump wants to alter by excluding unauthorized immigrants despite the 14th Amendment requiring the "whole number of persons in each state" and the U.S. government never excluding unauthorized immigrants from this process before.
5. Releasing the 1st set of 2020 census results on Feb. 9 or later (i.e., after Inauguration Day) means President-elect Joe Biden would get control of the numbers Trump wants to alter. Biden has condemned Trump's plan to exclude unauthorized immigrants from apportionment counts.
6. DOJ attorney John Coghlan didn't give any details about what kind of irregularities were recently found in the census records. The bureau first uncovered anomalies in November & has been trying to work through issues with records about college students: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/05/943416487/millions-of-census-records-may-be-flawed-jeopardizing-trumps-bid-to-alter-count
7. After reading this census news, you may be wondering... https://www.npr.org/2020/11/12/933924447/can-president-elect-biden-redo-the-2020-census-its-complicated
8. Here's my write-up on where the U.S. census stands: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/04/953387427/trumps-census-plan-in-peril-as-bureau-expects-february-release-of-count-results
