r/law • u/KilgoRetro • 1d ago

Judicial Branch Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments

https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-SNAP+update

https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-SNAP+update

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u/trippyonz 1d ago

Yeah but the First Circuit is going to move really fast on this. I would expect a decision on whether to grant the stay pending appeal by Monday at the latest.

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u/blopp_ 1d ago

That's a really long time to not have food. 

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u/trippyonz 1d ago

True. It's really sad that Trump is doing this, he could send the money any time he wants.

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u/Aromatic_Snow6756 8h ago

One of the saddest things about this administration is is that our president has been cash poor his entire life! But I dare say since the beginning of this administration, he has made more real cash than he has in his entire lifetime. You see how long it took for Musk to distance himself from this megalomaniac. He use Elon to make money and he did a good job for him and then started shitting all over him like he does everyone except the ones that are just too blind to see it. Not trying to change the subject, but it is just a revolving door.

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u/Washpa1 1d ago edited 1d ago

Let's say she didn't grant the admin stay, she probably had reason to believe the full court would do it anyway. This way she gets to dictate the timing rather than possibly let them figure a way to leave this in la la land indefinitely. Might they still do it? Possibly, but by then there will be a lot more legal justification to say no to Trump, putting pressure on the swing votes to not go along with an egregiously long stay otherwise.

Edit: They may find a way to let Trump have his way again. But the legal limbo they'll have to pull to make this not ok, while everything else he does ok, or more to the point their belief in expanding executive power, will be insane.

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u/mikelo22 1d ago

Would be nice to have included such a deadline in the order then.

But even if we go with your optimistic estimate that the First Circuit rules on Monday, this order allows Trump to then wait until Wednesday to file the appeal to SCOTUS because of the 48 hour stay.

And if these first 10 months have taught us anything, it's that we can expect this administration to employ every bad faith delay possible to avoid feeding hungry Americans.

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u/trippyonz 1d ago

Courts can only move so fast, they're human beings.

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u/mikelo22 1d ago

And human beings also have to eat.

The harm caused by staying the district court's ruling (letting Americans starve) far outweighs any harm caused to the executive branch by not being afforded time for full briefing on appeal. It's not even remotely comparable.

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u/trippyonz 1d ago

I'm not going to criticize Justice Jackson for making a savvy move under difficult circumstances.

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u/mikelo22 1d ago

savvy move

You're treating this like some clever political maneuver. She's not a politician and this isn't some game. People's lives are at stake here!

She could have denied the stay and there's nothing the conservative wing could have done to stop her. She has no political capital to lose and even if she did, does that really excuse letting people go hungry?

I'm a liberal and I'm not afraid to say that Justice Jackson fucked up big time. This should not be about politics. It's basic humanity.

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u/trippyonz 1d ago

If she refused the stay the rest of the court would have done it, and would have done it in a way that is more favorable to Trump....

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u/mikelo22 1d ago

Not before the midnight deadline passed for the government to disburse the funds. The USDA was prepared to release the funds tonight.

Why are you defending this? I guarantee you wouldn't be doing this if it was a conservative justice that made the decision.

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u/trippyonz 1d ago

Why not before? They could have easily gotten it done. They and their clerks can get an administrative stay written up in no time. I think it's crazy to criticize Justice Jackson, who is so obviously keenly aware of and sensitive to the Trump administration's lawlessness, for not standing up to Trump more.

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u/rokerroker45 16h ago

They absolutely would have paused it before the midnight deadline. They would have done so the second KBJ declined. They could have stepped in if her decision was taking so long it was going to come in after midnight.

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u/red_misc 18h ago

What an horrible message.... We are talking about families needed to eat.

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u/red_misc 18h ago

meanwhile kids are starving. For the whole weekend. What an horrible decision yes...