NAACP’s Constitutional Challenge to 2020 Census Fails

The NAACP failed to state a viable constitutional claim against the Census Bureau, a federal court in Maryland said Thursday, rejecting the group’s challenge to the 2020 Census count.

The NAACP didn’t plausibly allege that the Census Bureau’s plan fails to bear a reasonable relationship to an actual enumeration or that any of its actions unreasonably compromise the distributive accuracy of the census, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland said.

The U.S. Constitution mandates that Congress make an “actual Enumeration” of the U.S. population every 10 years. The results are used to apportion congressional representatives and allocate ...