On behalf of several Texas farmers, the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a preliminary injunction regarding disaster payments.
Specifically, they鈥檙e asking a federal court to stop the Biden Administration鈥檚 USDA from unconstitutionally and unlawfully funneling disaster and COVID-19 relief funds to certain farmers based on race and gender. Precision Risk Management says the plaintiffs are Alan and Amy West, Bryan Baker, and Rusty Strickland. They鈥檝e owned their farms for decades and suffered from the effects of droughts and COVID-19. Rather than help them, USDA is harming them by favoring other producers at their expense based on factors like race and sex that were not authorized by Congress.
USDA provides more money to 鈥渟ocially disadvantaged鈥 farmers like women, 澳门开奖直播 Indians, Asians, and many other groups. SLF is suing USDA on the plaintiffs鈥 behalf for violating the Fifth Amendment Equal Protection Clause and the Administrative Procedure Act.
