The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    19·
    13 hours ago

    The article doesn’t make clear, but it seems like there is no reasoning or opinion given since this is an emergency order.

    But most interesting is that this appears to be the sole decision of Justice Jackson, possibly the most liberal justice on the Supreme Court. So I’d love to know what the rationale was.

    After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      16·
      12 hours ago

      This post claims to have an educated guess:

      In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    42·
    15 hours ago

    Didn’t he try to use the excuse that he couldn’t legally fund SNAP? now he’s been legally ordered to and is fighting it

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      42·
      15 hours ago

      Its all excuses for what he wanted to do to begin with, which is take food out of the mouths of kids so that billionaires can become trillionaires

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      7·
      13 hours ago

      He actually read one book: an anthology of Hitler’s speeches

      Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.

      Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

      • lectricleopard@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 hours ago

        Family joke…

        You know, some things just aren’t funny man. If you insist they are, you’re the asshole. Objectively.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      6·
      11 hours ago

      This post claims to have an educated guess:

      In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree

      I’m thinking she may also have timed things in a way that results in Democratic-run states, which largely attempted to rush money into peoples’ debit cards after the appeals court ruling, having a month of SNAP, while Republican-runs states, which did not, having some very hungry people.