Administration Turns to Top Court Following Failed Bid to Stop Food Stamp Payment Order
This past Friday, just moments after a national appellate court determined that the administration must fully fund food stamp benefits, the federal government sought intervention from the nation's highest court in a additional effort to block the order.
Within hours, the top US court handed down an emergency order provisionally halting full food stamp funds, which nearly 42 hundred thousand Americans rely on to put food on the table.
“Government lawyers will not stop battling, around the clock, to defend and advance the president's policies,” the top legal officer announced on social media around 9:30pm local time.
White House staff had requested the federal appeals court to stop a judge's order mandating they issue this month's full monthly food stamp payments amid a US federal government shutdown, and faced refusal hours later.
America's Top Court Releases Temporary Injunction Blocking Entire Nutrition Assistance Disbursements
The supreme court's order came after the White House petitioned a national appeals court last Friday to halt a judge’s order that it provide this month's full monthly Snap assistance throughout a government funding lapse.
After that request to block was denied, the administration appealed to the nation's top court in a further attempt to halt the directive to pay for Snap food aid benefits.
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