U.S. Supreme Court grants Trump administration request to end Census count early

WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from continuing through the end of October.

The high court on Tuesday said the 2020 Census should be stopped for now.

The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately so the U.S. Census Bureau had enough time to crunch the numbers before a congressionally mandated year-end deadline for turning in figures used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets.

A coalition of local governments and civil rights groups had sued the Trump administration, arguing that minorities and others in hard-to-count communities would be missed if the count ended early.

Justice Sonya Sotomayor was noted as the lone dissenter in the decision, which you can read below.