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President Trump is expected to miss this census deadline under Title 2 of the U.S. Code today as the Census Bureau continues trying to fix irregularities found in the census records to make sure they're accurate before census results are released:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/2a
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/2a
2. As I reported last week, the release of the first set of 2020 census results (state population counts) used to determine each state's share of votes in the House and the Electoral College for the next decade is not expected until Feb. 9 or later: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/04/953387427/trumps-census-plan-in-peril-as-bureau-expects-february-release-of-count-results
3. The Census Bureau's associate director for the 2020 census said in a court filing last week that the bureau's "committed to fixing all identified anomalies & to producing complete & accurate census results as close to the statutory deadline as possible" https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1346662717059457024?s=20
4. It's important to keep in mind that finding "anomalies” in the census records is not unusual because trying to gather information about every person living in the U.S. has always been a messy process, which was even more complicated last year because of COVID-19.
5. What's been unusual is the Trump administration's pressure on the Census Bureau to cut short the quality checks needed to make sure no resident is counted more than once or in the wrong place. President Trump has also been trying to alter a key count: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/31/950071851/comic-how-the-census-turns-into-political-power-and-what-trump-wants-to-change
6. By the way, all of this uncertainty with the timing of the first census results means that when state and local governments will receive the redistricting data needed to redraw voting districts is still up in the air too. https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1346876218029838339?s=20
