Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Order Requiring Government to Fully Fund SNAP

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a late-night order Nov. 7 temporarily pausing a lower court’s order requiring the federal government to fully fund food stamps in November after a federal appeals court declined to do so. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an administrative stay, which gives the high court more time to consider an urgent case. The case is Rollins v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches. The government’s emergency application came hours after a federal appeals court declined to issue an emergency stay pausing a judge’s order that required the federal government to fully fund food stamps in November....