The Leonard Leo Federalist Society MAGAt (formerly "Supreme") court backs Trump's play to Make America Hungry Again

[Miles Archer]

THANK YOU Mean Old Uncle Thomas! Why, YES...I do believe that IS a pubic hair on your Coke!

THANK YOU Sammy the Flagman!

THANK YOU kindly old enabler John!

THANK YOU, Leonard Leo's hand-picked Federalist Society Three Stooges! NEIL! BOOF BOY! AMY! TAKE A BOW, you crazy kids!

MAKE AMERICA HUNGRY AGAIN! ELIMINATE "WELFARE" TO ALL BUT ELON, PETER, MARK, AND JEFF! SHOWER the BROLIGARCHS with the CASH saved by NOT FEEDING people who DO NOT DESERVE IT! Let's do ANOTHER tax cut for them! Let's do ONE A MONTH!

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to temporarily withhold roughly $4 billion in payments for the federal SNAP food assistance program, despite an earlier court order requiring the money to be distributed.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who handles emergency applications from the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, issued the brief order granting a temporary stay while the appeals court weighs the administration’s challenges, NBC News reported Friday night.

The ruling means some SNAP payments for November will be temporarily withheld.

The decision pauses an order from U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island, who on Thursday directed the government to deliver full benefits to states by Friday night. The judge had sharply criticized the administration for delays that, he said, have likely caused SNAP recipients to go hungry, NBC News reported.

https://www.rawstory.com/snap-benefits-2674277092/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Understand this: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did an End Run around

SCOTUS. She gave a 48 hour stay vs. an indefinite stay. Could've been worse.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220783626

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Wiz Imp (7,928 posts)
26. MUST READ: explanation for why Jackson did what she did here:
Key points here:
As for why Justice Jackson did it, to me, the clue is the last sentence. Had Jackson refused to issue an administrative stay, it’s entirely possible (indeed, she may already have known) that a majority of her colleagues were ready to do it themselves. I still think that this is what happened back in April when the full Court intervened shortly before 1 a.m., without explaining why Justice Alito hadn’t, in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemies Act case. And from Jackson’s perspective, an administrative stay from the full Court would’ve been worse—almost certainly because it would have been open-ended (that is, it would not have had a deadline). The upshot would’ve been that Judge McConnell’s order could’ve remained frozen indefinitely while the full Court took its time. Yesterday’s grant of a stay in Trump v. Orr, for instance, came 48 days after the Justice Department first sought emergency relief.

Instead, by keeping the case for herself and granting the same relief, in contrast, Justice Jackson was able to directly influence the timing in both the First Circuit and the Supreme Court, at least for now. She nudged the First Circuit (which I expect to rule by the end of the weekend, Monday at the latest); and, assuming that court rules against the Trump administration, she also tied her colleagues’ hands—by having her administrative stay expire 48 hours after the First Circuit rules. Of course, the full Court can extend the administrative stay (and Jackson can do it herself). But this way, at least, she’s putting pressure on everyone—the First Circuit and the full Court—to move very quickly in deciding whether or not Judge McConnell’s orders should be allowed to go into effect. From where I’m sitting, that’s why Justice Jackson, the most vocal critic among the justices of the Court’s behavior in Trump-related emergency applications, ruled herself here—rather than allowing the full Court to overrule her. It drastically increases the odds of the full Supreme Court resolving this issue by the end of next week—one way or the other.

I am, of course, just speculating. But if so, I think it’s both a savvy move from Justice Jackson and a pretty powerful rejoinder to the increasingly noisy (and ugly) criticisms of her behavior from the right. Given the gravity of this issue, it makes all the sense in the world for a justice in Jackson’s position to do whatever she could to ensure that the underlying question (must the USDA fully fund SNAP for November?) is resolved as quickly as possible—even if that first means pausing Judge McConnell’s rulings for a couple of days. If the alternative was a longer pause of McConnell’s rulings, then this was the best-case scenario, at least for now. And regardless, imposing this compromise herself, rather than forcing her colleagues to overrule her, is, to me, a sign of a justice who takes her institutional responsibilities quite seriously, indeed—even when they lead away from the result she might otherwise have preferred if it were entirely up to her.

[Miles Archer]

2. Yes, kudos to her

What's happening here is Trump's life-long love for "kicking the can down the road."

The latest "defense" is that the administration was "given only 24 hours" to take action.

The news outlets that reported on this failed to mention all of Trump's stall tactics leading UP to that.

Because he's supposed to be some kind of Machiavellian Ninja playing 4D chess.

[tavernier]

3. Interested to see if Trump sends ICE in

to kidnap Justice Jackson. She is becoming much too uppity and her skin color would give them unquestioned ability to do so.

[Miles Archer]

4. Countdown to "Low IQ Nasty Justice Jackson" tweets

We're in Trump's "lather, rinse, repeat" cycle of kicking the can down the road and filing an appeal every time he doesn't get his way.

When you look at the sum total of lawsuits against him in his first term and after, ALL OF WHICH HAVE EVAPORATED, it's clear that this "strategy" has worked for him, which is why he keeps using it.

It's about as devious as it gets. HE keeps delaying. Then, when given 24 hours to act, whines "THEY ONLY GAVE US 24 HOURS!"