White House Turns to High Court After Unsuccessful Bid to Block Food Stamp Payment Directive
Last Friday, immediately following a national appellate court decided that the government needs to completely finance Snap food aid disbursements, the White House turned to the US top court in a new effort to halt the directive.
A short time later, the top US court released an temporary injunction immediately suspending complete Snap food aid funds, which close to 42 million individuals count on to put food on the table.
“Legal counsel will not stop fighting, day and night, to protect and further our priorities,” the attorney general declared on digital channels shortly after 9:30pm ET.
White House staff had asked the federal appeals court to overturn a judicial decision mandating they provide this month's entire Snap payments amid a US federal government shutdown, and faced refusal that afternoon.
US Supreme Court Releases Urgent Ruling Stopping Full Snap Food Aid Payments
The top court's ruling was issued after the White House requested a national appeals court this past Friday to block a court ruling that it distribute this month's full monthly food stamp benefits during a US federal government shutdown.
Following that petition to stop was denied, the administration sought help from the supreme court in a new attempt to block the ruling to pay for food stamp disbursements.
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Students, faculty and staff at over 100 universities across the US rallied against the administration’s challenge to college education recently – the first in a scheduled sequence of countrywide, synchronized rallies.
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A Republican representative and strong ally of the president has formally begun her highly predicted gubernatorial bid.
The White House has issued a pardon for a retired baseball great on previous tax fraud and substance offenses, mentioning the individual's post-career embrace of faith and longtime sobriety.