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It’s shocking because of how easy it was for them to do the decent thing. Literally all they had to do was nothing, but they paid for the lawyers and did the work, and made a conscious effort to fuck over the most vulnerable people in the country.
All to advance Trumps agenda
....an emergency order to not assist the people.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WE ALMOST HELPED SOMEONE. SOMEONE IS SO FUCKING FIRED.
and they will find a way to be blame democrats about this lol
How the fuck did they have the gall to write this
If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm
I'm very much not a lawyer, I'm not even from the US, but even I know that irreparable harm is harm which may not be cured by monetary compensation. THIS IS LITERALLY JUST MONEY GIVEN TO THE STATES. IF THE DECISION IS LATER OVERTURNED THE STATES CAN JUST GIVE THE MONEY BACK FROM THEIR BUDGETS. This is the dumbest fucking shit I've read for a while.
You know what is quintessential irreparable harm? Medical complications or death from starvation. Which I sincerely wish upon the fucking monsters who signed this decision, which is illegal even by the already crooked pro-capitalist amerikkkan laws.
Y'all will need to relieve those injustices of their duties by force at some point. It doesn't seem like there's any other way.
It's even dumber than that. This was an order to use emergency funds set aside specifically for SNAP. Going before the Supreme Court and saying they don't have the funding is admitting that they stole that shit.
Its slightly more complicated. One judge ruled they have to use the emergency funds, another ruling said they have to provide full funding. Emergency funding is like ~5B, full snap payments for a month is like ~9B. So they would have to pull funding elsewhere, like from ICE. Which they totally should be forced to do, but that's just my opinion.
Anyone not wondering where Trump got the money to fund ICE during the shutdown is a fool.
If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds.
They are emergency funds. This is what they're there for!
Losing a tiny amount of money from the federal budget is irreparable harm. But starvation? Just fine.
This Supreme Court is a joke. I just heard they’ve ruled with the fascists over 90% of the time.
They could defund ICE and have money to spare.
Shouldn't this headline be "supreme court allows trump to dodge responsibilities for another week"? The court order was more focused on enabling godking trump than on whatever silly poor people shit they were supposed to be deciding.
It should be:
"Supreme Court considers SNAP benefits harmful and denies access to food while ICE receives full funding during the shutdown"
No food for you!
Ok just some food but not all
Kidding! No food for you! Bwa haha!
That's what this is like and it's horrifying. These are people's lives they're fucking with. People who live and work and pay taxes in this fucking country. And they re STARVING them. What the everloving fuck!!
Supreme Court blocked student loan payments too. What are they allowing recently?
What are they allowing recently?
Whatever an openly corrupt administration wants.
So they want to starve people.
I think they want people rioting in desperation so they can declare martial law.
That is a fact. They want an excuse to start deploying the military and I hope to God there's enough officers in the military that has enough balls to support the Constitution and not the fucking dictator. They are trying to push a civil war
There is no one who could fight the feds in a civil war right now. They want domestic violence, riots, that they can crack down on to take more power and train people to accept domestic occupation.
Wars require combatants. The troubles in Northern Ireland was not a civil war, and the IRA was far more organized than anything that exists now here in the states.
They want a fight because they think they can win.
So, let me get this straight -
Either the Dems surrender health care for Americans,
or...
MAGA is going to starve us to death?
Imagine when American citizens, even children, start dying of STARVATION in America because the wealthiest government in the world, led by dozens of Psychopathic Oligarchs, DELIBERATELY engineered it so they could pay less taxes?
Yeah, that's the government we want.
They make it seem like families being fed is somehow the emergency that needs to be prevented.
Cartoonishly evil. How are these people real?
Also they say they're christians. I think we should call them post-christian trump death cultists.
Here's an excerpt from Matthew 25 to bust out whenever you talk to one of these fucks:
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
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.
What the fuck is Justice Jackson doing ? Fucking I give up on the whole lot of them "Justices" now.
What the fuck is Justice Jackson doing ?
Here's one analysis:
Jackson gets this application because it's from the 1st circuit, and she is assigned to initially handle all shadow docket matters from the 1st circuit. By writing this admin stay, she potentially keeps the full court from stepping in and doing it for her. And this way she gets to set the 48 hour limit. This could cause the whole case to be decided one way or another a lot faster.
The supreme court let the trans passport case sit on the shadow "emergency" docket for 48 days. This stay gives the 1st circuit approx the weekend to make their decision, then the 48 hour deadline puts some oomph on the rest of scotus to make their decision.
If Justice Jackson did nothing, and 5 votes on the court intervened to issue a stay at 1 am, then there would be no 48 hour limit.
The gold is always in the comments. Have some Lemmy Gold.
God damn you bringing all this rational and logic to a discussion. ~~This is reddit dammit! ~~ I have been informed this is not ::: reddit :::.
Either way, damn you, I just want to be angry! No thinky! Angry!
“Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda,” said attorney general, Pam Bondi
Tells you everything you need to know. And they finally free enough to just come out and say it.
"Uh, Pam, there's some shit on your nose again."
“If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds. Worse, these harms will only compound if the decision below stands.
“There is every reason to expect that if the shutdown lingers, the court below will not command the government to tap these funds again in December to support Snap – blowing a bigger hole in the budget for the child nutrition programs.”
This is absolute bullshit. Those funds have already been allocated by Congress in the 2023 Farm Bill. The money is already authorized for use for the next few years. They don't need to "find it" somewhere else, or "get it back" at some future date. It is literally sitting ina find account, waiting to be used.
The only reason these benefits would be held up for any reason during a government shut down, is if the staff in charge of distributing that money are not currently working. That's what the $6 billion emergency fund is for. Paying the federal employees needed to make sure that money gets to its pre-authorized destination.
They don’t need to “find it” somewhere else, or “get it back” at some future date. It is literally sitting ina find account, waiting to be used.
You're assuming Trump hasn't already appropriated those funds and handed them to ICE or his rich buddies. How the hell can he loot the government if courts are allowed to force him to spend money where Congress tells him to spend it?
How many reasons do the Dems need before they start seriously talking about adding at least 4.seats to the Supreme Court? That's the kind of bold promise that many people will vote for, especially if they are in interracial or gay marriages, because those won't survive another MAGA administration.
And when we take our country back, we also need to impeach Clarence Thomas, and imprison both him and his treasonous bulldog wife.
It's time to re-balance the Supreme Court.
If the democrats win and don’t impeach these criminal Supreme Court justices …shit is going to hit the fan
They'll retake control in the midterms and do fuck all as they always do. Watched this my whole fucking life.
Seriously. Not getting aggressive with Nixon directly lead to trump and this whole criminal administration. Sherman didn't march far enough.
We really need more AOCs and the other three. And definitely more Mandami's, but aggressive, in local positions.
The Supreme Court Problem should be a top priority in the 2026 Midterms. People are already tired of being pushed around by the Supreme Court, which is supposed to protect us from government overreach.
Interracial and Gay marriage are on the chopping block under MAGA, and who knows what else these psychopaths will think of? People are scared of how the Supreme Court is being manipulated.
Dems need to run on increasing seats on the the Supreme Court, and impeaching Clarence Thomas for his many, many crimes.
Add 4 seats, get rid of Thomas, and the Dems would have 8 seats, and MAGA would have 6. And if a MAGA seat opens up, Dems need to go to war to take that seat, McConnell style.
The argument made is saying that if they release funds, the states will spend the money, as intended, on the poorest citizens and there will be no way to recover the costs of feeding the poor. I might be being somewhat controversial here, but a smidgy little extra tax on billionaires?
I really don't understand the argument at all. If we spend the money as intended we won't get it back? The fuck did they expect?
So the argument is that "if we give people food, and then they eat that food, then we are harmed because we cannot make them give us back that food that they ate"?
Like the messages on government websites blaming democrats for the shutdown, snap recipients should be directed to the homes of the members of the Supreme Court, to find who is to blame. Ruling on other's hunger. This is no high court.
Sitting back here as a Canadian and wondering wtf is wrong with Americans. This okay for most of you? Cause this mf and his minions need justice dealt swift and furiously like NOW. Do you need Canadians to teach you how to circumvent the Geneva Convention or something to get the job done? Jfc unbelievable.