Judge orders temporary halt to $4B federal loan relief program for farmers of color
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Judge Halts Debt Relief Program for Farmers of Color, Says It’s Likely Unconstitutional
BY TOM OZIMEK June 12, 2021 Updated: June 12, 2021
A federal judge in Wisconsin on Friday issued a temporary restraining order pausing payments in a federal farmer loan forgiveness program that grants benefits on the basis of race, arguing there’s a “strong likelihood” a court will rule that the program is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge William Griesbach issued the temporary restraining order (pdf) after a group of white farmers filed a lawsuit (pdf) against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), claiming unconstitutional race discrimination in the American Rescue Plan Act’s (ARPA) provisions that offer loan forgiveness based on racial categories (pdf).
“Plaintiffs are excluded from the program based on their race and are thus experiencing discrimination at the hands of their government,” Griesbach wrote in the opinion, noting that the twelve farmers and ranchers who sued “have established a strong likelihood that Section 1005 of the ARPA is unconstitutional.”
By simply asking this question, you're making an allegation.
Have YOU seen anyone smearing his reputation and calling him names? Me neither.
The obvious response to a government agency that claims it continues to discriminate against farmers because of their race or national origin is to direct it to stop: it is not to direct it to intentionally discriminate against others on the basis of their race and national origin.
The Section 1005 program is a loan-forgiveness program purportedly intended to provide economic relief to disadvantaged individuals without actually considering the financial circumstances of the applicant. Indeed, Congress can implement race-neutral programs to help farmers and ranchers in need of financial assistance, such as requiring individual determinations of disadvantaged status or giving priority to loans of farmers and ranchers that were left out of the previous pandemic relief funding. It can also provide better outreach, education, and other resources. But it cannot discriminate on the basis of race. On this record, Defendants have not established that the loan forgiveness program under Section 1005 is narrowly tailored and furthers compelling government interests. The Court concludes that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that Defendants’ use of race-based criteria in the administration of the program violates their right to equal protection under the law.
And that right there is why CRT took it to the children instead of taking it (back) into the courts. Why they don’t attempt to change society through traditional means and instead are using subversion. Structural and systemic racism will never meet the “narrowly tailored” standard.
Who are the racists behind bidens systemic racist legislation? Is it oBozo and miChAeL? Acorn ayers?
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