Administration Turns to Supreme Court Following Unsuccessful Bid to Block Food Stamp Payment Directive
On Friday, shortly following a national appellate court decided that the White House must completely finance food stamp payments, the administration turned to the US top court in a new effort to prevent the ruling.
Within hours, the supreme court handed down an temporary injunction provisionally halting entire Snap food aid benefits, which close to 42 hundred thousand people rely on to buy groceries.
“Government lawyers persist in working, day and night, to protect and further our agenda,” a senior official declared on social media around 9:30pm local time.
White House staff had petitioned the US appeals court to block a judicial decision requiring them to issue November’s complete food stamp benefits during a US federal government shutdown, and had their request rejected that afternoon.
The High Court Grants Emergency Order Blocking Complete Food Stamp Payments
The supreme court's order came after the government petitioned a US appellate court last Friday to stop a judge’s order requiring them to provide this month's full monthly Snap benefits during a US federal government shutdown.
Following that petition to stop was denied, the government appealed to the supreme court in a new attempt to block the order to pay for nutrition assistance benefits.
Other Developments Occurred Today:
The funding lapse brought public confidence in the US to a near record low in this month, according to a regular poll conducted by the Michigan University.
Campus populations at over 100 universities across the US protested the government's challenge to college education last Friday – the first in a scheduled sequence of nationwide, synchronized rallies.
An Ivy League institution disclosed a settlement with the administration, emerging as the fifth college facing scrutiny by the federal government to settle.
A conservative congresswoman and staunch supporter of the White House has formally begun her much-expected gubernatorial bid.
The White House has pardoned a ex- athlete on earlier financial and narcotics violations, citing the individual's retirement adoption of faith and longtime sobriety.
