The surprising news on this front comes from a really interesting article from the Brennan Center written by Kelly Percival and Thomas Wolf:

In a win for the integrity of the census, on Friday the Trump administration agreed not to release population numbers or any citizenship data before President-Elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20.

The agreement, approved late Friday by a federal court, comes in a lawsuit challenging the administration’s efforts to rush the decennial count to a close before President Trump leaves office, which would have opened the door for him to illegally manipulate the count. It represents a significant victory for the coalition of civil rights groups, civil society organizations, and tribal and local governments who brought the case, represented by the Brennan Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP.

Also, see our main section on American Democracy and our Voter Access articles focusing more broadly on the ease of voting and the various barriers in the way.