NAACP’s Constitutional Challenge to 2020 Census Revived (1)

The NAACP’s constitutional challenge to the 2020 Census shouldn’t have been dismissed, a federal appeals court said.

The Dec. 19 opinion authored by Judge Barbara Milano Keenan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said the claim against the methods and means for conducting the census is ripe for review.

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 billions federal funds.

But the actual count taken has never been accurate, and the undercount disproportionately affects racial and ethnic ...