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.
Usually emergency orders are to help people
Lol! The citizens united decision should have shown you that capital>>people.
At the very least to keep the status quo and mitigate irreversible harm. This seems like an order to push forward the agenda of their god king and barrel through with the harm.
And now we have Democrats talking about bills to reopen with a vote in ACA in December. I doubt SNAP will even come back to fill strength if the government opens back up
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.
Anything they can do to lower taxes for people with more money than God.
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.
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.
The cruelty is the point!
Supreme Court issues emergency order…
me: YESSS, FINALLY!!!
…to block full SNAP food aid payments
me: motherfucking goddamnit.
Could you imagine arguing in FAVOR of denying people food? What has happened to this world?
The argument is that they can’t pay because the democrats want to also maintain the evil bad socialist disastrous healthcare system. Instead of paying the insurance companies through Obamacare, we should give people the money directly
so healthcare providers can gouge the fuck out of prices even more effectively.Also, remember that communism is evil and that the islamists and marxists are now emboldened by the brown guy being elected in NY. And while we’re at it, isn’t this whole “waiting for the government to pay for your food” thing socialism anyway? Look where voting Dem got you!
Really, this shutdown is what the dems wanted. They’re the bad guys who don’t want people to have food!
Now excuse me while I try to wash off the disgusting feeling this dive into their cesspools has left me with. It probably won’t work, but I have to try.
The Government’s argument, I shit you not, “Congress has not given explicit permission to do this.”
Invade cities with ICE, bomb boats in the body of water formerly know as the Gulf of Mexico, literally start a war with a sovereign nation, tariff the fuck out of everyone… BUT OH NO! Feeding kids, that’s Executive overreach.
Man, I’m not religious, but holy fuck I really do hope there is a hell.
This administration is demonic.
Completely demonic. Pure evil.
Kentanji brown Jackson was the one who halted payments.
A direct link to the relevant comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/20377671
Man, I’m not religious, but holy fuck I really do hope there is a hell.
I say this ALL the time. The moment is heard Dick Cheney died, I thought “If there’s a Hell, he’s having a very unpleasant time right now,” and smiled.
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?
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”. :)
I think the scotus would absolutely bow to Vance.
Unsure about the masses though.
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.
Almost every revolution in history was caused by people that got too hungry while rich people were oblivious.
Give it a bit more time.
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.
They certainly seem ok with being tread on
I get the impression that’s what they want. Riots are a great excuse for more militia in the cities and marshall law.
republicans are mostly on snap, but they arent told the news on propaganda news sources, or its been distilled.
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.
Oh, that’s cute. You think riots could solve this.
We are officially in the “Let them eat cake” stage of this MAGA government. Enormous ballrooms, foreign jet bribes, bailouts for foreign dictators, and now they’re going to deliberately starve poor people because they think it will make people vote for them.
When we take back this government, this will be the exact reason that there should be at least three seats added to the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas should be impeached, prosecuted and imprisoned, along with his treasonous bulldog wife.
They are actively STARVING their own citizens! There will be no punishment too severe for these monsters.
We are officially in the “Let them eat cake” stage of this MAGA government.
Cake‽ Are you out of your mind? Why should taxpayers’ money be used to fund something as luxurious as cake for people on SNAP benefits?
I bought pistachios and Japanese snack mix with the last of my SNAP from last month, bc fuck it, might as well go out with a bang.
Japanese‽ As in non-American? What part of “Make America Great Again” did you fail to understand?
Haaahaha 😂😂😂
here will be no punishment
too severefor these monsters.We’re in end game now. We will not take back the government. 2025 was a feel-good moment but 2026 will be stolen. Civil war 2 AI boogaloo is the only chance for The People to take back our power after that.
Nope, historically, these guys never win for long. Eventually they fall, and it is ALWAYS very bad for them. Ask Hitler, Mussolini, Ceausescu, Gadhafi, and countless other dictators whose last day in office coincided with their deaths
Aside from Ceausescu the rest were deposed by outside military forces. Tell me who’s going to invade the US and save us?
Are you actually saying that there have never been successful uprisings within a country? Because history is full of Revolutions that weren’t caused by outside forces.
I can cite the American and French Revolutions, as two obvious ones. We don’t need to be invaded to be saved.
And if we have to have a revolution to get our country back, we will have plenty of foreign support for it. The rest of the world despises Trump, even his so-called friends, and if there were a credible revolution, we would have help.
We also have an extremely strong military and legal leadership with all the lawyers and Generals they’ve fired. I just read how all of the lawyers are forming numerous boutique law firms to specifically fight MAGA policies, with each form specializing in a different issue - immigration, fired workers, etc.
What are the Generals doing? Who knows? Generals aren’t exactly known for the candor. The remaining ones were beyond offended at being summoned to DC to have Uberputz Hegseth yell at them, and are clearly unhappy.
The lawyers didn’t slink away when they were fired, what are the chances that the equally ignominiously fired Generals, who spent their lives in defense of this nation, are going to just fade off into retirement? Or are they going to want to retire on one last victory, the biggest of their entire lives and careers - nothing less than saving America from a hostile invading force?
A civil war in the US in its current state would destroy the country. The end would be fractured states with their own borders. The US civil war in the 1800’s was a war between two sides with borders between them. A civil war now would be neighbors killing each other in the streets. There’s no glorious revolution to fix things here. If we don’t fix is legally and peacefully, we don’t fix it at all.
We’ve had a Cold Civil War since Newt Gingrich took over Congress with his Contract With America. It’s just now threatening to go Hot.
Your scenario was common during the Civil War. The Union Capital, Washington DC, was very close to Richmond, VA, which was the Capital of the Confederacy. Traitors and Spies roamed the streets of both cities, and nobody knew who to trust.
Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the final outcome is a balkanization of America, with the Northeast breaking away, the Pacific coast breaking away, as well as the upper Midwest. MAGA can have all the shithole states and their weekly recreational mass shootings. MAGA will lose all access to West Coast ports (they can pay huge tariffs for access, they’ll like that), NYC/Wall Street, and they can try to figure out how to survive without the support of the rest of the world, 90% of which will not support Trumpland.
The Northeast and Pacific Coast, and Illinois/Minnesota/ Wisconsin, can form alliances with Canada and Mexico, and surround about 2/3 of Trumpland, and if the MAGAs decide to get froggy, it will be pretty easy to cut them off from the rest of the world, and crush them.
So who gets Vegas? I doubt Vegas will want the shit hole states, they’d much rather join the states with big cities like LA, SF, NYC, and Chicago. Nevada will go with Pacifica.
I feel like Vegas will end up like it looks in Blade Runner 2049. It’s so dependent on water from other states that I don’t see it sustaining.
When we take back this government, this will be the exact reason that there should be at least three seats added to the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas should be impeached, prosecuted and imprisoned, along with his treasonous bulldog wife.
You are long past “take back the government” at this point. The flaws in the system have been so blatantly exploited that it requires an overhaul to fix. Three more seats on the supreme Court just means a fascist needs two more people in their pocket to do the exact same thing that is happening now.
Oh GOD!! Quick somebody stop kids from eating so Trump can have more women in martini glasses!!!
OH! NO!. There are americans that might not go hungry. Quick uncle justice thomas summon the supreme court action force to stop this travesty! Everyone should do searche google about if historically starving populaces have ever killed their leaders or judges till its the top search on google.
It’s even worse than that. They did it not because it’s unconstitutional in any way but because they felt that it was dangerous to cause more debt by using these funds which were specifically set aside for this exact purpose.
They’re not even pretending anymore.
Funny how debt becomes a thing to care about only when it serves the purpose of taking literal food out of the literal mouths of the poor.
meanwhile we continue to stuff argentina and israel’s mouth full of money.
So this is how you know you’re the fucking bad guys, if any MAGAs are lurking around here.
They are either starving people for leverage, or starving people out of malice. That’s it. Those are your only options.
If you support a government that starves people for leverage, you’re a fucking asshole.
If you support a government that starves people out of malice, you’re a fucking asshole, and you’re a complete failure of a human being.
I’m very, VERY thankful Trump and MAGA are finally collapsing. 3 months from today Trump will not be the president. 3 years from now, most of these people will be dead or in prison.
I admire your optimism, and sincerely hope you’re right.
I’m so tired of this evil clown show.
We have had countless reasons for “Trump is almost through” for about 10 years now. I think it’s going to get a lot worse.
Oh yeah, it’ll get worse. But that’s what will get him out and everyone in prison.
Basically their hand is forced: escalate or capitulate. I’m not 100% sure which will happen but I am 100% sure it will be one of those two things within the next two weeks.
They are continually choosing escalate.
Love the idea, but not gonna happen.
I live in rural Ohio. The consensus amongst maga is “duh dems r blockin’ it!!! :((((”
The traitorous, moronic MAGA voters will have nothing to do with it. They’re just along for the ride, just like they are now. They’re nothing but pawns.
How do you envision him ceasing to be the president in 3 months?
Perhaps massive numbers of citizens are going to march to DC and do the needful.
Build a gallows in the ballroom and let him experience a quick drop.
They’ll either kill him or invoke the 25th.
Escalation or capitulation.
Escalation means explosion of all the tension that has been building since inauguration, and that won’t last long as it will be utter chaos and good for nobody.
Capitulation means Vance. But that doesn’t necessarily preclude escalation down the road with him.
If I was a betting man, I’d say capitulation - MAGA politicians will throw Trump under the bus, MAGA voters (read: morons) will reject Vance, Bannon, Miller and Thiel will panic and get messy, and then some people will go to prison.
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!?
America! Fuck yeah! This is winning! Fuck the poor!
Oh. And Trump is a pedophile and most likely human trafficker. In addition to his other felonies and rape charges. He also sleeps in meetings and has no idea who he pardons. Clearly he is sundowning. But hey, the GOP is here to protect all your diddlers and white collar criminals. They really care.
Weird definition of “emergency.”
Let’s starve the supremes for a month and see what’s an emergency.
Next level evilness.
