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The U.S. Court of Appeals has allowed the government to continue appeals regarding Executive Orders targeting major law firms.
Attorneys representing Malliotakis and five voters in her district are seeking to toss that ruling and keep the district as is, and on Monday filed appeals in both the appellate division of the Manhattan Supreme Court and the higher New York State Court of Appeals. They will also file an emergency motion to stay the decision, attorney Bennet J. Moskowitz said in a Jan. 26 letter to the judge, hoping to prevent maps from being redrawn while the appeal is being heard in court.
CNN anchor Pamela Brown relentlessly grilled Trump Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins over the administration's fight against paying full SNAP benefits during the shutdown, repeatedly interrupting to fact-check her. President Donald Trump repeatedly appealed federal court decisions ordering the government to pay SNAP benefits (commonly known as Food Stamps) including to the Supreme Court. On Thursday's edition of CNN's The Situation Room, Brown pressed Rollins about that fight, and repeatedly shot down the excuses she was given: