Is it time to postpone the Census?

[superpatriotman]

Postpone Census Brooklyn Pols Plead With Commerce Secretary

Dr. Tim Law, chairperson of the Census Outreach Committee of Community Board 11 in Bensonhurst, liked the idea of a postponement.

“I think we should postpone the census by a year,” Law told the Home Reporter. “Even three months would help. People aren’t thinking of the census today. Right now they care about the coronavirus.”

Law, who was a census taker in 2010, said the rate of participation was even low ten years ago without a pandemic dominating the news.

https://brooklynreporter.com/2020/03/postpone-census-pols-urge-commerce-secretary/

[True Blue American]

1. No

Most fill out the form online or you can mail it in.

[Laelth]

2. The census is Constitutionally mandated.

My gut tells me that postponing it would set an ominous precedent.

-Laelth

[thesquanderer]

3. They've already delayed the deadline a couple of weeks, to mid August. At some point...

...extending it could be constitutionally challenged, as you indicate... but by the time it went through the courts, perhaps some amount of time would have passed, at least buying that much additional time...?