Ross

I. BACKGROUND

1 Plaintiffs filed suit on August 18, 2020. ECF No. 1. Throughout this litigation, Defendants’ 2 position has been that Defendants’ Replan of the 2020 Census is necessary to meet two statutory 3 deadlines: (1) the December 31, 2020 deadline for the Secretary of Commerce’s report to the 4 President on congressional apportionment figures, followed by the President’s transmittal of those 5 figures to Congress by January 11, 2021; and (2) the April 1, 2021 deadline for the Secretary’s 6 report to the states for the purpose of state redistricting. See ECF No. 208 at 3 (summarizing 7 deadlines). 8 After the Court enjoined the Replan under the Administrative Procedure Act, Defendants 9 successfully sought a stay of the Court’s order from the United States Supreme Court. See Ross v. 10 National Urban League, No. 20A62 (U.S. Oct. 13, 2020). Before the Supreme Court, Defendants 11 represented that they would quickly process Census data to meet the December 31, 2020 and April 12 1, 2021 deadlines and to allow states to meet their own “contingent redistricting deadlines.” Defs. 13 Reply in Support of App. for a Stay at 11 (“Defs. Reply”), Ross v. National Urban League, No. 14…