ORLANDO, Fla. – As lawyers in a court hearing argued over what would happen if the U.S. Census Bureau blew a deadline to turn over data used for redrawing congressional districts, a bipartisan group of U.S.
senators on Tuesday introduced a bill pushing the deadline into next year, even though a previous effort hasn't gone anywhere in the Senate.During a federal court hearing on whether to extend the 2020 census by a month, U.S.
District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, asked government attorneys to explain what harm there would be if the Census Bureau didn't turn in the figures by a Dec.
31 deadline required by law.Koh is weighing arguments between government attorneys who say the head count of every U.S. resident must finish by the.