EXCLUSIVE — The Supreme Court on Monday was asked to weigh a challenge against a now-defunct Biden administration COVID-19 relief policy that offered farm loan forgiveness solely to nonwhite ranchers, according to a petition from a Wyoming-based farmer who says she was excluded from the program.

In March 2021, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 COVID-19 stimulus bill, allocating $4 billion for the forgiveness of loans aimed at assisting socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. Leisl Carpenter, a white farmer whose ranch in Wyoming’s Big Laramie Valley suffered during the pandemic, was excluded from the program on the basis of her ethnicity, according to a petition obtained by the Washington Examiner.

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