A district court judge granted an injunction against the Biden administration’s loan-forgiveness program for nonwhite farmers and ranchers, ruling in favor of a Tennessee farmer who argued in a lawsuit that the provision was unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson for the Western District of Tennessee ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) should halt its distribution of funds through the program until the case is fully resolved. The program, otherwise known as Section 1005, was created under a provision in the American Rescue Plan Act that was approved by Congress earlier this year.
