NEW: Emails show career officials at the Census Bureau tried to warn the Trump admin that cutting the #2020Census schedule short would lead to "fatal data quality flaws that are unacceptable" and risked the perception of "politically-manipulated results." https://www.npr.org/2020/09/20/914692254/census-could-look-manipulated-if-cut-short-by-trump-officials-bureau-warned

2. These internal emails, memos and other docs were released this weekend as part of the Nat'l Urban League-led lawsuit in California over the shortened #2020Census schedule. They show career officials trying to hold the integrity of the census together in the last weeks of July.

3. I started this thread earlier this weekend with some highlights from what I found in the documents. Stand by for more #2020Census receipts... https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1307386748016656387

4. On 7/21, 2 career officials, Kathleen Styles & Ben Page, began circulating separate draft documents with others at Census Bureau that tried to put plainly, as Styles wrote in this email, "why we need every minute of the requested schedule extension."
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7213892/July-22-2020-Email-From-Kathleen-Styles-DOC.pdf

5. The internal document by Ben Page, the Census Bureau's chief financial officer, emphasized that additional time to review the #2020Census results is "essential to ensuring an accurate and complete count" especially in light of delays caused by COVID-19:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7213902/2020-Decennial-Census-Apportionment-Data.pdf