I am filled with disgust.
The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking a judge’s order requiring Donald Trump’s administration to fully fund a critical food assistance program that has stranded millions of Americans and their families after the government failed to keep it afloat at the start of the month.
And a nontrivial amount of confusion
But the administration is simultaneously telling states that it will immediately begin funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a weeklong lapse — the first in the program’s 61-year history.
I’m wondering how they’re going to use this opportunity to continue to prioritize cruelty.
Edit: I am no longer filled with disgust about this particular choice as I see that in doing this, Justice Brown has, quite counterintuitively, most likely made it so that people get food sooner.
Explainer here: https://piefed.world/comment/2443735
Don’t forget, Republicans are the pro-starvation party.
Every left-leaning person with a legal background that I’ve seen talk about this has said that this is actually better than it sounds because all of the alternatives were worse. This actually tied the hands of the conservative bloc of the SCotUS to handle the case quicker than the alternative.
Mike Sacks: https://bsky.app/profile/mikesacks.bsky.social/post/3m53mtiou2s2m
Steve Vladeck: https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Ken White: https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3m53kwn2m3k26
I see. So if I understand correctly Brown is keeping it out of the supreme Court so that the ruling comes down faster thereby making everything faster even though the stay does really delay SNAP benefits for some time, it leads to a faster ruling at the lower court as opposed to a slow ruling at the supreme Court?
That’s the way I read it too. It’s making its way to the supreme courts eventually, but by ruling the way she did it reduces the ability for the conservative justices to drag their feet before ruling and delaying it much more before sending it back down to the lower court for clarification or a new decision and causing a bigger delay.
