Census officials have indicated they're facing difficulties processing census responses in time to produce the final count by an end of the year deadline. Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and a law professor at the University of Texas, called Friday's decision "a bit of a mixed bag." The American Civil Liberties Union said that the Supreme Court decision is "only about timing, not the merits" -- and that if Trump's policy were to be implemented, they would challenge it again in court. Trump issued a memo in July outlining a new policy mandating that undocumented immigrants be excluded from the apportionment base. Last year, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt to ask respondents if they are US citizens.

Source: CNN December 18, 2020 15:28 UTC