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NEW: DOJ filed its supplemental brief in the SNAP benefits case stay application at SCOTUS, leading off with the Senate vote last night, not the legal issues or the First Circuit's stay denial (although it does get into those issues after that). www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
In the Supreme Court of the United States ─────────── No. 25A539 BROOKE ROLLINS, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, ET AL., APPLICANTS v. RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, ET AL. ─────────── SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF FOR APPLICANTS ─────────── Last night, the Senate began the process for ending the shutdown and funding the government—including full funding for SNAP through the end of the fiscal year— though the outcome of that process remains, to be sure, uncertain. See Alex Miller, Senate Advances Plan to End Shutdown, But Final Votes and Hurdles Remain, Fox News (Nov. 10, 2025). That proposal, if adopted by both Houses of Congress and signed by the President, would end the shutdown and moot this application. But roughly one hour after that hard-fought compromise was passed, the court of appeals issued its decision and declined to stay the district court’s command that the govern- ment immediately repurpose billions of dollars from Child Nutrition Programs to pay for full November SNAP benefits. Literally at the eleventh hour, those orders inject the federal courts into the political branches’ closing efforts to end this shutdown. But the answer to this crisis is not for federal courts to reallocate resources without lawful authority. The only way to end this crisis—which the Executive is adamant to end—is for Congress to reopen the government.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM