The Office of the New York Attorney General (OAG) said New York Attorney General Letitia James won a court order Monday, Nov. 10, temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to both claw back Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and punish states that release them.

OAG officials said James and 24 other attorneys general and governors filed an emergency motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Sunday night, Nov. 9, after the Trump administration sent states an alarming late-night memo directing them to “immediately undo” the release of SNAP benefits.

They said in a late night letter dated Saturday, Nov. 8, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ignored its own prior guidance and threatened that the release of full November benefits would be

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