SMACK!! JUDGE STOPS USDA FROM CONDITIONING SNAP AND OTHER FUNDING ON CAPITULATION TO ANTI-DEI, GENDER, AND OTHER TRUMP PET PEEVES
by Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. – giving you 100% facts and truth in plain English about what’s going on with this administration and the law
I’ve almost lost count of how many different legal battles this administration has lost over their efforts to get states to bend a knee to Trump’s almost paranoid mania triggered by DEI, gender issues, and anything else exhibiting any sort of.. you know… humanity.
In this particular case the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, promulgated a set of conditions (“the Challenged Conditions” or just “Conditions”) to which states must follo… adhe… capitulate in order to receive the monies from grants and funds which the USDA administers. Among these are the Child Nutrition Programs and SNAP (which stands for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
By now you know the drill – the Conditions include that there must be no hint of DEI, no aroma of sanctuariness, no whiff of gender affirmation.
Never mind that *Congress* sets the rules – and indeed the law – for “promoting the general welfare, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s population by raising levels of nutrition among low-income households”, and controls the appropriations for such programs. Which means that…yes.. this is a lawsuit invoking… say it with me…
The Administrative Procedure Act (APA)
So the following states plus the District of Columbia sued the USDA’s *sses:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts; State of California; State of Illinois; State of Wisconsin; State of Colorado; State of Connecticut; State of Delaware; District of Columbia; State of Hawai’i; State of Maine; State of Maryland; State of Michigan; State of Minnesota; State of New Jersey; State of New Mexico; State of New York; State of Oregon; State of Rhode Island; State of Vermont; Commonwealth of Virginia; and The State of Washington
Now, yesterday (June 5th) Judge Myong Joun put a stop to this nonsense. In fact this ruling happened even *faster* than the ruling that I just wrote about regarding the targeting of immigrants from that list of “high risk” countries. That ruling came out just 90 days after the lawsuit was filed. *This* ruling came out in *74* days from initial filing to order! Wow!
The order hasn’t even been formally published yet, there is just this minute entry on the docket because, I’m sure, it was late on Friday afternoon:
“Plaintiffs Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Doc. No. 42, is GRANTED. Defendants are PRELIMINARILY ENJOINED from enforcing the Challenged Conditions, which includes the following sections of the Department of Agricultures General Terms and Conditions for Federal Awards: The term policies in 12.2, and the entirety of 12.2.2, 12.2.4, 13.5, 13.8, and 13.10. The injunction also applies to the corresponding sections in the Departments General Terms and Conditions for Mutual Interest Agreements. As raised at the motion hearing held on 06/02/2026, for the avoidance of doubt, Defendants need not issue new terms and conditions documents. The parties have agreed that a properly executed reservation of rights will protect Plaintiffs’ interest for the duration of the preliminary injunction. A memorandum of decision will issue at a later date.”
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