SCOTUS lets Trump pause full SNAP payments

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

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, even though residents in some states already have received the funds.

A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked an 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.

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.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b

[Ziggy 14,031]

Why is he so dead set on this? It literally only makes him look terrible 

[Lord Mayhem 3,428]

What the actual ****??? Are you serious???

So now the Supreme Court is perfectly fine with letting its citizens starve...are we in Gaza? 

[ThisGuyTony 34,866]

SCOTUS needs a refresh.  Full of corruption and trash  

[27monster27 15,857]

18 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

Why is he so dead set on this? It literally only makes him look terrible 

Not his cultists though! They are all for this. They are the same people that would be reporting "undesirables" to the Gestapo in 1930s/1940s Germany.

[Hadrian 2,632]

****ing asshole.

[REALITY 80,162]

2 hours ago, Ziggy said:

Why is he so dead set on this? It literally only makes him look terrible 

I genuinely think his supporters are brainwashed enough to think *anything* he does is great. 

[FATCAT 60,888]

Taking cues from his war criminal friends

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,965]

I feel like the media is purposefully showing PoC affected by this in order to validate the hate from bigots and racists. Where are all the white people that aren't making ends meet now? 

[Bronco 25,062]

Isn't Jackson supposed to be one of us?

[PartySick 172,514]

1 hour ago, Bronco said:

Isn't Jackson supposed to be one of us?

I can only think of one of two explanations.

She either knows the blowback is gonna be on Trump/Republicans (which is why Dems blew Reps away in this week's elections)

Or she's waiting for the appeal to throw her support behind it

[Ziggy 14,031]

14 hours ago, REALITY said:

I genuinely think his supporters are brainwashed enough to think *anything* he does is great. 

Sure but there’s actually not *that many that are behind this. Look at his polling which itself never even paints a full picture of the situation. Hes enormously unpopular and now for the holidays his gambit is to starve the poor? What an idiot. Only his diehards would buy this crock bc most others think this is demented and cruel. Even by his standards I’m just wondering what the calculus is bc the picture is just not looking good rn

[Ziggy 14,031]

7 hours ago, Bronco said:

Isn't Jackson supposed to be one of us?

I have a feeling there’s a good reason for it bc the times literally *just posted about how she is noticeably more outspoken and left than previous judges and precedent 

[Morphine Prince 109,655]

8 hours ago, Bronco said:

Isn't Jackson supposed to be one of us?

 

6 hours ago, PartySick said:

I can only think of one of two explanations.

She either knows the blowback is gonna be on Trump/Republicans (which is why Dems blew Reps away in this week's elections)

Or she's waiting for the appeal to throw her support behind it

 

4 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

I have a feeling there’s a good reason for it bc the times literally *just posted about how she is noticeably more outspoken and left than previous judges and precedent 

She’s assigned to the first circuit court so any decision made, she has to be the one to implement it. Not necessarily her preferred choice. 

Edited November 8, 2025 by Morphine Prince

[Bronco 25,062]

1 hour ago, Morphine Prince said:

 

 

She’s assigned to the first circuit court so any decision made, she has to be the one to implement it. Not necessarily her preferred choice. 

Thank you. Despite having studied american politics, the federal court system is convoluted as ****