Overview:
A federal judge just dealt a stinging rebuke to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), striking down a federal rule limiting states’ ability to provide benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). In District of Columbia v. U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture,D.C. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell held that both the substance of the rule and the way that the U.S.D.A. formulated it violated the law, finding it particularly striking that the agency would take this action against the backdrop of a pandemic that has “rocked the economy, killed nearly220,000 Americans, quadrupled the national unemployment rate, and dramatically increased the number of Americans forced to reckon with hunger this year.”
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