A federal appeals court in Boston yesterday denied the regime's request to let poor children, seniors and people with disabilities starve as lawsuits over its SNAP defunding during the Republican shutdown of government proceed through court.
Given the way ten Democratic senators last night caved and agreed to sign onto a measure to re-start government under strictly Republican terms, the money could soon flow again anyway - unless a capricious regime decides to keep not funding SNAP just because. A stay against full reimbursement - ordered by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson - remains in effect until late tomorrow
In its ruling, the First Circuit Court of Appeals said it was not going to reward a regime that "sat on its hands for nearly a month" and did nothing to figure out w

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