Judge says ending 2020 census on Oct. 5 may violate order

A federal judge says a revised Oct. 5 date the U.S. Commerce Department picked to end the 2020 census may violate an order she issued last week that cleared the way for census to finish at the end of October. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh suggested Tuesday that she would be open to considering a motion of contempt against the federal government or a motion saying her order had been violated. A Trump administration attorney says the suggestion that the federal government was in contempt was &ldquo