UPDATE [9:44 PM Eastern]: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday evening ordered a stay in response to the Trump administration's emergency appeal of the SNAP funding case.
via our friend, Professor Margot Cleveland:
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— Margo Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) November 8, 2025
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As RedState wrote late Thursday, a federal district court ordered the Trump administration to pay the full amount of SNAP benefits for November, requiring it to comply within 24 hours. They quickly appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit:
On Thursday, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to restore USDA financial support for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Again.
SEE: Federal Judge Orders USDA to Fully Fund SNAP
But on Friday afternoon the appeals court delivered some bad news:
[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ] On Friday rejected the Trump administration's request to temporarily block a lower court ruling requiring the government to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) amid a government shutdown.
This comes just after the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday issued a memo to all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) administrators to all states that it will work to secure full funding for November. One report stated that “USDA wrote in a memo that 'later today' it will 'complete the necessary processes' to release funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
Immediately the administration filed an emergency application at the United States Supreme Court, asking the justices to rule by 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time today.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to stop—by 9:30 tonight—court orders requiring full November SNAP benefits to be paid. pic.twitter.com/jzPsoTwS23
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 8, 2025
A Trump administration official told Fox News in the article linked above: “Given the imminent and irreparable harm caused by these orders, which require the government to transfer approximately $4 billion by tonight, the Solicitor General respectfully requests an immediate administrative stay of the orders pending a decision on this application no later than 9:30 pm tonight.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi also responded to the decision after the Justice Department filed a petition with SCOTUS on Friday. calling a judge's order “judicial activism at its worst.” She continued her series of X posts:
A single district court in Rhode Island should not be able to take center stage in the shutdown process, seek to upend political negotiations that could lead to quick policy decisions for SNAP and other programs, and dictate its own preferences for how scarce federal funds should be spent.
With only a few hours left before the TRO compliance clock begins, and the First Circuit anticipating a denial of immediate relief only minutes ago, we have filed an emergency stay petition with the Supreme Court asking for immediate relief.
Bondi also quoted a statement:
As stated in our Supreme Court report:
“Congress's primary power is the power of the purse, while the executive branch is tasked with allocating scarce resources among competing priorities. But in this case, the court below took the current shutdown as an effective license to declare a federal…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@Agpambondi) November 7, 2025
“Congress’s primary power is to manage finances, while the executive branch is tasked with allocating limited resources among competing priorities,” the memo said. “But here, the court below has taken the current closure as a valid license to declare federal bankruptcy and appoint itself as trustee charged with picking winners and losers among those claiming some portion of the limited pool of remaining federal funds.”
You can read the full petition Here.
This is an amazing story. RedState will provide updates as more information becomes available.
Editor's note: This article has been updated since publication for clarity.
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