The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily halted a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to fund November’s SNAP benefits.
On Thursday, Rhode Island District Judge John McConnell ordered the Trump administration to fund SNAP benefits amid the Schumer shutdown.
The lawless judge directed the Trump administration to divert funds from child nutrition programs to SNAP. On Friday evening, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge John McConnell’s order, requiring the administration to deliver full SNAP benefits to states by midnight.
DOJ Solicitor John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to respond by 9:30 p.m. ET.
Late Friday evening, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily halted Judge McConnell’s order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits.
Justice Jackson stayed the judge’s order to give the First Circuit Court of Appeals time to review the ruling.
“This administrative stay will terminate forty-eight hours after the First Circuit’s resolution of the pending motion, which the First Circuit is expected to issue with dispatch,” Justice Jackson wrote.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the decision as a victory.
“The Supreme Court just granted our administrative stay in this case,” Bondi said. “Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda.”
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