Federal Judge Sides With White Farmer Who Said Debt Relief Package for Black Farmers is Unfair, Temporarily Halts Stimulus Package
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a stimulus package that forgives agricultural debts to Black farmers and other farmers of color. U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard issued a preliminary injunction, halting a part of the loan forgiveness payments and blocking the $4 billion aid package, saying the program’s “rigid, categorical, race-based qualification for…
