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A judge ruled against The Biden Administration’s farmer relief plan, according to Town Hall.
District Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson said, “The Court finds that Plaintiff has shown a substantial likelihood that he will prevail on his claim that Section 1005 violates his right to equal protection under the law.”
“Absent action by the Court, socially disadvantaged farmers will obtain debt relief, while Plaintiff will suffer the irreparable harm of being excluded from that program solely on the basis of his race.”
“To qualify under the bill, an applicant or his farm needn’t have experienced racial discrimination,” she continued. “There is not even a requirement that the applicant have suffered any direct economic loss due to the lockdowns. Skin color is the most important consideration.”
“What’s it going to take for the Biden-Harris Administration to comply with the Constitution?”
“Now that their discriminatory farming and ranch debt relief has been enjoined by another court as a violation of the equal protection clause, the writing is on the wall.?”
“It’s time to treat all of us like Americans, regardless of our skin color.?”
“The pandemic didn’t discriminate when it hurt farmers and ranchers last year, and the government shouldn’t discriminate now.?Racial segregation was wrong before, it’s wrong now, and will be wrong forever.”
From Town Hall:
After this latest defeat, the Biden administration may finally take a hint.
So far the White farmers and ranchers challenging the program are batting 1.000 against the Biden administration.
On July 1, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking the USDA from implementing the program, a week after U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Morales Howard in the Middle District of Florida did the same.
Those orders were more sweeping than the temporary restraining order delivered June 10 by a federal judge in Wisconsin on behalf of 12 White farmers. (The Washington Times)
