BOSTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked the appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
BOSTON (AP) — Residents in some U.S. states began to receive their full SNAP food aid Friday as an appeals court left in place, for now, an order requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to fund the monthly benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown.
Once all this bullshit is finally over with, we need a constitutional amendment banning the fucking shadow docket this is insane
Emergency. To stop citizens from getting food.
This is what you voted for republikkkans. I sure as shit hope you enjoy what you’ve done. Have a glass of water for dinner.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement
Biden-appointed Supreme Court Justice is the one who took the action. I seriously would love more info from her.
One thing I did not see coming was the judge who put the ruling out. I would have guessed Roberts or basically any one of 6 possible choices other than Brown.
Supposedly there is a 4d chess reason or something but the court system shouldn’t be that complicated.
Nestle: Water ain’t a human right either, suckers.
Anything they can do to lower taxes for people with more money than God.
It’s going to be wild to see 1890’s bombings in the 2020’s. Remember what happened when anarchists used to bomb government officials? I expect the same to happen when parents start losing their children. To starvation.
I’m just making an assessment. Not calling for it or saying it should happen.
Also, the bombs can fly now.
They fly now!?
Next level evilness.
This is like fucking pennies, dude. Fuck off with this shit. Go ride your Qatari jet and contract with Raytheon and approve another massive defenses (excuse me, War) budget
Could you imagine arguing in FAVOR of denying people food? What has happened to this world?
If every paper in the U.S. and news channel isn’t saying “President Donald Trump orders ~1/8 of Americans to go hungry!”. They should should face enough backlash that they should be off the air or fear they will be burned down for lying to the public.
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Weird definition of “emergency.”
Let’s starve the supremes for a month and see what’s an emergency.
“Emergency”
More like vetoing the actual emergency order.
HURRY A POOR FAMILY IS ABOUT TO BUY SOME FOOD WE MUST STOP THIS!
Americans should be rioting already. There seems to be no end to the corruption and madness of their sham Supreme Court and fascist government. What will it take?
Soon. When the safety nets start failing.
However, Trump will likely be removed by his own people in a matter of months, and Republicans will pretend to be victims of an elaborate scheme. It’ll probably work too, because anyone who is a supporter of Republicans today is a literal moron, or psychopath.
If the GOP impeaches Trump, we get Vance. That can’t be good either, amirite?
It’s better than Trump. Vance has the charisma of a wet blanket.
He also has a minimal existing cult following to build popularity off of, unlike Trump, who has people like this:
The interesting thing is that that picture speaks more to the problem than any other. That person obviously had a void in thier life. A lack of meaning or purpose. And trump took advantage of that void and used it for himself. If more people had a fullfilling life, there would be no room for trump. But we have been taking thier opportunities away for the sake of corporate profits, and to put this country in one of the top positions of power in the world. I think you can guess that I don’t think we made a good trade there.
And the backing of Peter Thiel, a billionaire with a surveillance empire just ripe for use in political oppression.
I mean, so does Fascist 47. Directly or indirectly, Thiel is getting what he wants right now. Same with all the other Dark Enlightenment chuds.
thiel is the reason vance has a career, financially and politically.
Correct, and correct. But Vance will be seen as a MAGA traitor for removing Trump, and they will have a very hard time getting their messaging straight.
I think that would also lead to a power vacuum. Vance might get the big boy chair, but the stringpullers will get antsy with midterms approaching.
vance wouldnt get the support of the gop or scotus, or magats in general, they want TRUMP. the only support VANCE is getting is from THIEL, whos artificially keeping him there.
I think the scotus would absolutely bow to Vance.
Unsure about the masses though.
If Trump is removed, Vance takes office automatically. The whole point of the VP is to be a hot spare for the POTUS. They would have to get rid of Vance next if they didn’t want him, and it probably goes downhill from there.
In Trump’s first term, people said his insurance premium against impeachment was very affordable: “just one Pence”. :)
It does feel like things are resolving. Trump just got his lowest ratings ever, and last time it took a pandemic, a crippled economy, and a million dead Americans to reach this point.
His acceleration tactic seems to be potentially backfiring. His intention to start wars is his solution, but I’m not sure that will work considering how much he’s fucked up everyone’s everyday lives. The record-high job losses, the skyrocketing price of goods, the housing costs, loan rates, and rent prices…
He doesn’t have the intelligence to fix this. And as it gets worse, so too will public opinion. He’s at a 63% disapproval rating right now. And this was before the news about the Epstein files being “far worse” for Trump came from The Department of Justice.
The craziest whacko republican in the senate is now openly flipping on Trump to get those files released. The shutdown is preventing this, and now nearly 42 million Americans are about to be impacted by Trump and the GOP Supreme Court deliberately shutting down their food money.
Well on the plus side, many are rallying to support the people who are affected. While it won’t fix the long term problem, if more of the human race was like that, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation.
I get the impression that’s what they want. Riots are a great excuse for more militia in the cities and marshall law.
Oh, that’s cute. You think riots could solve this.
They certainly seem ok with being tread on
Almost every revolution in history was caused by people that got too hungry while rich people were oblivious.
Give it a bit more time.
republicans are mostly on snap, but they arent told the news on propaganda news sources, or its been distilled.
This is precisely what the fascists want. They want people rioting so they can take pictures of cities on fire and use it as justification to escalate.
Mass action: yes. But people need to be smart about it.
General strike. Hunger strike.
“I’m okay taking a few hits. They gotta weed out the leeches who just drain the system” <- actual reasoning I’ve heard.
When half the country is willing to starve to death and armed to the teeth, the other half is not quick to riot and provoke them
Fox News broke this country
As was intended.
Lol. So america, ready to vote like your life depends on it yet? Because it kinda looks like it does, or will soon…
Up next, “Donald Trump announces 100% tariff on SNAP”
I’ve seen Les Miserables, I know how this goes.
Oh GOD!! Quick somebody stop kids from eating so Trump can have more women in martini glasses!!!
