{"id":2197288,"date":"2024-03-12T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-petitioned-over-biden-loan-relief-plan-excluding-white-farmers\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:54:40","slug":"supreme-court-petitioned-over-biden-loan-relief-plan-excluding-white-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-petitioned-over-biden-loan-relief-plan-excluding-white-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court petitioned on exclusion of white farmers in Biden&#8217;s loan relief plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-petitioned-over-biden-loan-relief-plan-excluding-white-farmers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2197288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Supreme Court Asked to\u2062 Weigh Challenge Against Biden Administration&#8217;s \u200bControversial\u200b COVID-19\u2064 Relief Policy<\/h2>\n<h3>Exclusive: Farmer Excluded from Loan Forgiveness Program Based on Ethnicity<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Supreme Court was recently presented with a \u2062challenge against a now-defunct COVID-19 relief policy implemented by the Biden administration. The policy, \u200dwhich offered farm loan forgiveness exclusively to nonwhite ranchers,\u2062 is being contested by Leisl Carpenter, a white farmer from Wyoming. Carpenter argues that she was unjustly excluded from \u2064the program due to her ethnicity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In March\u200d 2021, President \u2064Joe Biden signed the\u200d American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 COVID-19 stimulus bill, which allocated $4 billion for loan forgiveness aimed at assisting socially disadvantaged farmers\u200c and ranchers. However, \u2062Carpenter&#8217;s \u2063petition, obtained by the Washington Examiner, reveals that she was denied access to the program solely based on her race.<\/p>\n<p>Section 1005 of the ARPA established a debt relief program\u2062 for &#8220;socially disadvantaged&#8221; ranchers during the pandemic, \u2064according to the Department of \u200bAgriculture.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Carpenter was ineligible for Section 1005 debt \u200drelief because \u200cshe \u2062is Caucasian,&#8221; Carpenter&#8217;s petition stated, highlighting the\u200c program&#8217;s violation of the Constitution&#8217;s guarantee of equal \u200cprotection under the 5th Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Carpenter&#8217;s petition argues that the\u200d Farm Service Agency of the USDA defined &#8220;socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers&#8221; based on race shortly after the enactment \u2064of ARPA.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain States Legal Foundation initially brought Carpenter&#8217;s dispute, along with 11 other farmers\u2064 who did not qualify for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-groups-who-lose-if-joe-biden-forgives-college-loans\/\" title=\"Six Groups Who Lose If Joe Biden Forgives College Loans\">loan forgiveness plan<\/a>, to federal court. The \u2064program, which provided up to 120%\u200b debt relief \u200bfor certain &#8220;socially disadvantaged&#8221; farmers and ranchers, was halted after a successful lawsuit in Tennessee. However, the federal government had already distributed approximately $1 million in test payments under the race-based provision before \u200cthe program was stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Although\u200d Carpenter&#8217;s case did not result in a successful injunction before Congress repealed Section 1005, the Inflation\u200c Reduction \u200dAct \u200dreplaced the loan forgiveness program with a similar plan that does not mention race. The petition notes that Congress did not address the payments made by the \u200cUSDA before the repeal.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter appealed to the U.S.\u200b Court of Appeals for \u2063the 10th Circuit, challenging the federal district court&#8217;s ruling that the \u200ccase became moot following the program&#8217;s\u2064 repeal. However,\u2062 the 10th Circuit held that Carpenter&#8217;s eligibility was determined by geography, stating that even if she were not white, she would have been excluded from the test payments because\u2064 she lives in Wyoming rather than New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The recent petition, filed with co-counsel Braden Boucek of the Southeastern Legal\u200b Foundation, asks the Supreme Court to determine\u2064 whether Carpenter&#8217;s case is\u200d truly\u200d moot and whether this would set a precedent allowing the federal government \u200bto dismiss a lawsuit after an alleged violation of equal protections by a \u200bfederal internal agency administration decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 10th Circuit&#8217;s rule creates a road map for invidious discrimination whenever the federal government wants\u200d to do something,&#8221; \u200bsaid William Trachman, Mountain States&#8217; general counsel. He expressed\u2063 concerns about the potential for government \u200dprograms to prioritize race without facing consequences.<\/p>\n<p>While the petition does \u2063not specify the damages Carpenter seeks, it emphasizes the ongoing unequal treatment she has experienced, raising constitutional questions that warrant the attention of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>At least \u2064four justices\u200d must agree to take up the petition and vote to grant the case certiorari or hear it on the merits during\u2064 an oral argument session.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court-challenge-biden-covid-relief-policy\">here<\/a> to read more from the \u2062Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court receives\u2062 thousands of\u2062 petitions each term and reviews a significant number of them during the\u200b justices&#8217; long conference in the final week of September.<\/p>\n<p>Read the petition in full:<\/p>\n<p>LEISL M. CARPENTER, Petitio&#8230; by Kaelan Deese<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What\u2062 implications\u200d will the Supreme \u200cCourt&#8217;s decision on this case have for future government programs\u2062 that incorporate race as a determining factor for eligibility<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200cE \u200dissue of the program&#8217;s constitutionality in its repeal of Section 1005.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter&#8217;s legal team argues that the country&#8217;s highest court should intervene to address the constitutional issue at hand. The petition states, &#8220;The Supreme Court has consistently held that \u200c&#8217;racial classifications, imposed by \u2064whatever federal, state \u200cor local \u200dgovernmental actor, must be analyzed under a standard of strict scrutiny&#8217;.&#8221; It further asserts that the race-based loan forgiveness program \u200cviolates the \u2064Equal Protection Clause of the 5th Amendment by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-white-former-employees-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-against-seattle\/\" title=\"Federal judge denies dismissal of racial discrimination lawsuit by white former employee against Seattle.\">treating individuals differently based<\/a> on their race.<\/p>\n<p>This\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-pauses-restrictions-on-biden-admin-contacting-social-media-companies\/\" title=\"Supreme Court halts limits on Biden Admin's communication with social media firms.\">case raises important questions<\/a> about the role\u2063 of race in government policies and programs aimed at addressing social disparities. While the intention behind the loan forgiveness program was to help socially \u2063disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, the exclusion\u2063 of individuals based on their race raises concerns about the fairness and legality of such policies.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on whether to take up this case \u200dwill have significant implications for future government programs\u200c that incorporate\u2064 race\u200d as a determining factor \u200bfor eligibility. It will serve as a precedent for the constitutionality\u200b of race-based policies, and will establish guidelines for how such programs should adhere to \u200dthe principle of equal protection for all citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of\u200b this case \u2062will also have implications for the ongoing national conversation surrounding racial \u200dequity and justice. Supporters of the loan forgiveness program argue that it is an important step \u2062towards correcting historical \u2063injustices faced by marginalized communities in the agricultural sector. Critics, however, contend that race-based policies perpetuate discrimination and undermine the principles of equal opportunity and meritocracy.<\/p>\n<p>As the case \u200bawaits the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on whether to hear it, the\u2064 debate\u2064 around race-based policies and their impact on equal protection under the law continues. The outcome of this case will shape the future of \u2062government programs aimed at addressing social disparities and serve as a guideline for ensuring fairness and equal treatment for all citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court received a petition from a Wyoming farmer, challenging a defunct Biden administration policy. The policy provided loan forgiveness to nonwhite ranchers only, excluding the farmer. 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