Census Judge Bends Wilbur Ross and Commerce to Follow Orders

A federal judge appears to have finally bent Wilbur Ross to her will after ruling the Commerce Department repeatedly violated her order to keep the census count going until the end of the month.

Late Friday, at Koh’s order, a Census official sent a text to all field staff charged with counting the U.S. population to continue operations through Oct. 31. Ross had earlier announced on Twitter that census collection data would end Oct. 5.

“Employees should continue to work diligently and enumerate as many people as possible,” was the Friday message from the census official.

The seemingly simple direction ...