On Sept. 24th the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction that enjoined the U.S. Census Bureau from ending its counting operations on September 30, extending the time to Oct 31. The Supreme Court issued a stay of this order last Tuesday allowing for census counting to end on Oct. 15.
The order included a lone dissent from Justice Sotomayer noting ” the government has not satisfied its “especially heavy burden to justify a stay pending appeal of the lower court’s injunction.”
