US Census

The Supreme Court sounds skeptical that President Donald Trump could categorically exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot seats among the states in the House of Representatives

A panel of three appellate judges has upheld a lower court order allowing the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident to continue through October.

The Census Bureau is halting its field operations to count the population a month ahead of schedule, the agency’s director announced in a statement Monday night, raising fears of a national undercount.

U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham testified that he wasn’t informed ahead of time about President Donald Trump’s order seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the process of redrawing congressional districts.