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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't he try to use the excuse that he couldn't legally fund SNAP? now he's been legally ordered to and is fighting it

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 40 points 1 week ago

Its all excuses for what he wanted to do to begin with, which is take food out of the mouths of kids so that billionaires can become trillionaires

[–] Embargo@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we pleeeease not feed our own citizens who are starving? Pretty please!?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Billionaire Burgers. Now with actual billionaire meat!

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

2/10 would take 1 enthusiastic bite.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The article doesn't make clear, but it seems like there is no reasoning or opinion given since this is an emergency order.

But most interesting is that this appears to be the sole decision of Justice Jackson, possibly the most liberal justice on the Supreme Court. So I'd love to know what the rationale was.

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.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This post claims to have an educated guess:

In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Really good article. Thank you for posting it.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -4 points 1 week ago

Or, alternatively, no liberal with power is your friend.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't this worse than "let them eat cake?"

Has he even met a person that read a fucking book? Jfc...

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He actually read one book: an anthology of Hitler's speeches

Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, "Heil Hitler," possibly as a family joke.

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Family joke...

You know, some things just aren't funny man. If you insist they are, you're the asshole. Objectively.

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Supreme Court: Fuck them kids!

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

How fucking terrible can you be?

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 1 week ago

GOP: “Yeah, we gotta starve all them useless toddlers & elders NOW!!!”

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn’t foresee Jackson going this way… A little disturbing. Perhaps I don’t understand.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

This post claims to have an educated guess:

In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree

I'm thinking she may also have timed things in a way that results in Democratic-run states, which largely attempted to rush money into peoples' debit cards after the appeals court ruling, having a month of SNAP, while Republican-runs states, which did not, having some very hungry people.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Well, thank goodness there has been an end to the scourge of OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS going to the unworthy buying caviar with SNAP benefits!

Not to mention overweight people eating, getting weaves and getting their nails done!!!!

https://youtu.be/JWfUcyPUl48?t=843

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Heartless cunts.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Supreme court really out here like

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

What a Supreme clownshow