Federal Judge Cites Coronavirus In Decision Blocking Trump Admin Cut To Food Stamps

The Hill ^ | March 13, 2020 | Brooke Seipel

[kiryandil]

A Trump administration rule that would have tightened work requirements for food stamps was blocked by a federal judge on Friday, who cited the rapidly spreading coronavirus in her decision.

D.C. District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell granted a preliminary injunction blocking the new rule, which government estimates predicted would kick as many as 700,000 Americans off of food stamps.

“Especially now, as a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing that government officials at both the federal and state levels have flexibility to address the nutritional needs of residents and ensure their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential,” Howell wrote in her ruling, according to HuffPost, which first reported the injunction.

A coalition of 14 states and two major cities, as well as the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, had sued the Trump administration over its rule to restrict the ability of states to provide food stamps to jobless residents.

[kiryandil]

Resistance "judge" Beryl Howell [ClownBammy appointee to the US District Court for the District of Columbia] strikes again!

Chief "judge" Beryl Howell has been a Resistance "busy bee":

• She was the supervising judge for the grand jury working for special counsel Robert Mueller's "investigation".
• Made the initial ruling that her Dem pals in the House could see the secret grand jury materials.
• Pushed back against President Trump when he accused her partisan witch subordinate Amy Berman Jackson of being partisan in the Roger Stone case.
• Held a Roger Stone associate [Andrew Miller] in contempt for refusing to testify in Russia investigation.

[goldstategop]

This will be overturned on appeal.

[rktman]

Food stamps don’t MAKE groceries appear if the store’s been depleted.

[CodeToad]

The idiot cannot make policy.

[Robert DeLong]

Beryl A. Howell

Appointed by: Barack Obama

She was the federal judge supervising the grand jury for special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

[Paine in the Neck]

Deciding this is the legislature’s prerogative. Yet another lefty judge making political policy decisions without constitutional authority.

[kiryandil]

All the Lefty Democrat federal judges cry:

"I am Presidenticus!"

[ac-rep]

I knew it was a women as soon as I read the headline . They’re thinking patterns are obvious to all who care to look

[Persevero]

Just based on her own personal opinion.

No law. No legal precedent.

[kiryandil]

This will be overturned on appeal.

Yep. This is just Resistance horsepoop.

[kiryandil]

Hey - she’s a Federal judge-president. Need we say more?

[PerConPat]

Howell...Poster girl for the rot that infects the judiciary... Trump's election victory was a gift from God. If America's good fortune holds up, PDJT will be reelected; and he will continue to rid the courts of the tares like Herdishonor, Beryl.

[Gene Eric]

You’re not a legislator, jackass.

[Lisbon1940]

I knew a Barol who was a man. From South Africa.

[kiryandil]

We won’t be able to flush the Beryl Howell toilet bowl for some years yet, but Trump is making her less relevant daily.

[wac3rd]

Deep state activist judge who hates America. She is the problem.

[The Antiyuppie]

“The idiot cannot make policy.”

She just did.

[lepton]

So he blatantly and overtly ruled based upon his ideas of the proper policy.

[Cboldt]

-- The idiot cannot make policy. --

Sure she can. Courts do it all the time. And courts get to decide where they draw their own boundary. Even public outrage is not a limiting factor. See abortion and homo marriage.

The only controlling force is judicial whim, also referred to as the rule of law.

[rdcbn]

Pretty sure emergency powers allow a President to tell a judge to take a hike