US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments

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!

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.

So they want to starve people.

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.

“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.

....an emergency order to not assist the people.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WE ALMOST HELPED SOMEONE. SOMEONE IS SO FUCKING FIRED.

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.

If the democrats win and don’t impeach these criminal Supreme Court justices …shit is going to hit the fan

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"?

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.

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?

“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.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

Of course. Of fucking course. Why the fuck wouldn't they?

Fuckers.

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.

Supreme Court blocked student loan payments too. What are they allowing recently?

Everybody is just a number to these people. Absolute sociopaths.

They make it seem like families being fed is somehow the emergency that needs to be prevented.

My deepest sympathies to all Americans, even the ones who support Trump. At the end of the day, they're just victims of the system like the rest. And no matter the outcome of the last election, this was inevitable, Trump or no Trump. At best it could have been postponed by a few years.

I wish it was different, but I can't see all of this ending with anything less than a full blown revolution and/or world war. Nobody wants this and everyone would like to avoid this, but it just doesn't look at all possible right now.

After long decades of enslavement, brain washing, tyranny, and terror, a good chunk of Americans is realizing that there's no world in which this is acceptable or excusable.

In addition, there's finally again a superpower to rival the USA.Whatever your feelings on the USSR or China - there can never be just one superpower, because we've seen what that leads to. I wish it was the European Union, but it looks like the USA was mostly successful in destroying all efforts for Europe to become truly great and powerful. At the very least China is currently more friendly than the USA has ever been. Let's hope they keep this attitude even after America crumbles. That's probably the most optimistic scenario I can think of.

Soooo much winning everywhere!…

Cartoonishly evil. How are these people real?

Headline should read “supreme court encourages politicians to screw Americans over more”

TIL 💫

Yep, all to advancing Trumps agenda