High court’s order comes after appeals court rejected Trump administration’s request to block November benefits

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38674008

The supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments.

The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown.

After that request to block was denied, the Trump administration turned to the supreme court in a further attempt to block the order to fully fund Snap food aid payments.

The application to stay reads: “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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    30·
    24 hours ago

    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.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 hour ago

        No, it isn’t, not yet. We still have the 2026 Midterms, and the 2028 Presidential Election. How MAGA handles those elections will tell the tale. If they manage to game the system again, or worse, end elections with some excuse, THEN legal means have failed, and it’s time for out-of-rhe-box solutions.

        I understand that people are frustrated, and want action, and that’s good. But if we respect the Constitution (which is the very foundation of this battle with MAGA) we have to reserve that righteous indignation for the moment, and let this play out until they violate the Constitution so badly that it becomes ineffective. Something like cancelling elections.

        Then we have the moral authority to act decisively. And when it happens, we will have plenty of support. All the military leadership they fired, all the legal power the they fired, etc., will all support the resistance.

        In addition, Trump and MAGA are REVILED by the rest of the world. Not only will our allies refuse to support Trump, they are likely to heavily support his opposition. Even those that claim to be his friend hate him, and are unlikely to help him in any substantial way, and risk retaliation and sanctions from the other nations.

        If you respect the Constitution, you have to let it play out, but we all see where this is going.

        • survirtual@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 minutes ago

          By the time people like you realize the legal means have long failed, it will be too late.

          The constitution has a clause for this specifically: the 2nd amendment.

          Why don’t you read up on what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison have to say on the topic?

          And for the record, this isn’t a “battle against MAGA”. It is a battle against corporations. I’d recommend figuring out who your enemy is first.