US Attorney General Pam Bondi went off on Obama-appointed John McConnell for forcing the USDA to raid school-lunch money to fund SNAP benefits.
US District Judge John McConnell, an Obama appointee, scolded DOJ lawyers on Thursday during a hearing and ordered the Trump Administration to fully deliver the SNAP benefits to states by Friday.
“The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened and needless suffering will occur,” Judge McConnell said to the DOJ lawyer on Thursday. “Last weekend, SNAP benefits lapsed for the first time in our nation’s history. This is a problem that could have and should have been avoided.”
More than 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits, and the $5 billion emergency fund was not enough to cover the program for November.
The judge ordered the Trump Admin to take funding for child nutrition programs and redirect it to the overwhelmingly lazy SNAP recipients.
Judge literally ordering Trump Administration to take food out of mouths of babies because Democrats shutdown government. pic.twitter.com/uHgwizcbSO
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) November 6, 2025
Bondi ripped the judge for raiding the school lunch program to fund SNAP.
“That TRO purports to force the government to divert some $5 billion from the school lunch program to SNAP by the end of today,” Bondi said.
.@TheJusticeDept just filed a request for an immediate stay of Judge McConnell’s utterly lawless Temporary Restraining Order issued yesterday after business hours—yet remarkably forcing @USDA to “raid school-lunch money to instead fund SNAP benefits.” That TRO purports to force…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) November 7, 2025
The judge played dirty tricks with the timing of his court order and the First Circuit Court played along to disadvantage the government.
“Why could we file this brief only this morning, with that clock ticking? The First Circuit clerk’s office made it impossible to file sooner,” Bondi said.
“Despite being notified by the government of the high likelihood of fast-moving litigation, the First Circuit clerk’s office refused to answer its phones until this morning, and refused to offer any means of filing this emergency request until it processed certain paperwork during regular business hours,” Bondi said.
Why could we file this brief only this morning, with that clock ticking? The First Circuit clerk’s office made it impossible to file sooner. Despite being notified by the government of the high likelihood of fast-moving litigation, the First Circuit clerk’s office refused to…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) November 7, 2025
Bondi accused Judge McConnell of exacerbating his own manufactured emergency by starting the government’s clock after the First Circuit closed for the day.
So, Judge McConnell exacerbated his own manufactured emergency by starting the government’s clock just after the First Circuit closed for the day, forcing an even faster rush today to disadvantage the government further.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) November 7, 2025
“We ask the First Circuit to get courts out of the business of deciding how to triage scarce funds during a shutdown,” Bondi said.
It is Congress’s job is to end this shutdown and fund SNAP and other programs. We ask the First Circuit to get courts out of the business of deciding how to triage scarce funds during a shutdown. When lawless district courts step in to try to manage the federal fisc, it upends…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) November 7, 2025
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