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Nancy Townsley
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Just a gramma who sews and writes. Author of SUNSHINE GIRL, Heliotrope Books, 2025.
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NEW: Here's Judge McConnell's order telling the USDA to fully pay SNAP benefits immediately.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71820...
minary stay. ECF No. 22. It is estimated that 42 million individuals, approximately 1 in 8 Americans, rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”). This includes 14 million children, 8 million elderly people, and 1.2 million veterans. A core mission of the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) is to ensure that America’s children are properly nourished, yet their decision to not feed hungry Americans through SNAP leaves this Court to address the issues the agency has failed to resolve. While the President of the United States professes a commitment to helping those it serves, the government’s actions tell a different story. Faced with a choice between advancing relief and entrenching delay, it chose the latter—an outcome that predictably magnifies harm and undermines the very purpose of the program it administers. Such conduct is more than poor judgment; it is arbitrary and capricious. One cannot champion the public interest while simultaneously adopting policies that frustrate it. Discretion exercised in this manner ceases to be discretion at all—it becomes obstruction cloaked in administrative formality. Accordingly, intervention
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Oh, hard relate.
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM