BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked for another 48 hours a district court’s order that the Trump administration pay out full SNAP benefits for November.

In an unexplained order, the full court on Tuesday evening extended the administrative stay Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s initially entered in the case — which was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. The new administrative stay from the full court lasts through 11:59p Thursday.

Although no justice wrote any opinion, Jackson noted that she wouldn’t have extended the administrative stay and would deny DOJ’s stay request altogether. Because this is a shadow-docket matter, we do not know how the other justices voted.

The extension, presumably, is based on a hope at avoiding a Supreme Court ruling on the matter altogether. If the shutdown ends, the request would become moot, as full payments would be able to proceed.

And yet, for now, it means that full payments will be blocked for another two days — as we approach mid-month.