Milwaukee County’s census data currently is being tabulated by the U.S. Census Bureau for its end-of-December scheduled delivery to the President, who in turn delivers the count to Congress. In March 2020 COVID-19 protocols disrupted and replaced years of 2020 census planning – extending collection timelines and shifting collection processes that, in turn, were suddenly abbreviated by presidential order in September.
On December 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a census-related decision – just thirteen days before the census was scheduled to be delivered to the president. The Court reviewed a July 2020 presidential order directing the Census Bureau to present two sets of data: 1)the total census, and 2) the full census minus the total number of undocumented persons. The presidential intent is that Congress use the immigrant-purged data for Congressional reapportionment and state taxation purposes.