The Trump administration filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court asking it to quickly halt a lower court’s order to issue full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits using funds intended for child nutrition.

The petition to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket came less than an hour after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit declined to halt U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s Thursday order that Section 32 Child Nutrition Funds be used to issue full SNAP benefits by Friday. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the high court to issue an administrative stay of the lower court’s orders by 9:30 p.m. Friday while it considers the petition.

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