FROM DAILY MAIL: The Trump administration got a victory Friday as the Supreme Court upheld its emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP payments amid the government shutdown.
A judge had given the White House until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
But the administration asked the appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.
After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts.
The Trump administration had filed an emergency appeal to SCOTUS late Friday.
An administration spokesperson told Fox News: “Given the imminent, irreparable harms posed by these orders, which require the government to transfer an estimated $4 billion by tonight, the Solicitor General respectfully requests an immediate administrative stay of the orders pending the resolution of this application by no later than 9:30pm this evening,”
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