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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 13, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court today granted the Trump administration’s request to halt the census count while an appeal is pending, The Hill reports. The emergency order comes after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration’s request to overturn a district court ruling that the count must continue through the end of October. The administration has been seeking to end the count early, arguing that maintaining the original date of Oct. 31 would prevent the Secretary of Commerce from reporting data by the Dec. 31 statutory deadline, Jurist.org reports.