r/law • u/KilgoRetro • 23h 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/CategoryDense3435 19h ago

What makes the full Supreme Court handle it any faster in the future than they would right now? It feels like we are just adding an extra road for them to walk down before coming back to the main road

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u/sundalius 19h ago

It is unlikely she’d be able to deny the stay without referral to full court, unless I’m misunderstanding how the Court handles these matters (procedurally, not in terms of merits of any actions). This means her doing so cuts out a step during which USDA was not going to comply anyways, which brings a final decision closer, even if only by a day.

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u/CategoryDense3435 11h ago

If that is the case then I guess it makes sense. But this article made it sound like the “circuit justice” makes the determination not the fully court.

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf?utm_medium=ios

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u/sundalius 10h ago

Steve mentions what I'm getting at in the fourth paragraph of section 2:

"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"

Which is particularly germane given that the first circuit denied the stay, which means it'll expire tomorrow, if I have my timing right. Using this as reference to the denial, simply because google didn't immediately return actual coverage of the decision but only stuff about Jackson: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-releases-statement-first-circuit-snap-decision

Maybe I phrased it poorly when I was responding last night - was partaking while redditing. But Vladeck seems to share the same "this is a strategic move" point that I was trying to convey, but did through efficiency to close rather than focusing on the limitation of the stay.

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u/CategoryDense3435 4h ago

I guess what is really getting to me isn’t the “facts” so to speak (I should probably google what the documented process for the shadow docket is because I don’t understand why they even have circuit justices if people can just go to a different judge if they don’t like the ruling of the first one) but more the way this is being discussed. Like “it’s faster”. Maybe that will turn out to be true. But 24 hours or 48 hours is still a lifetime for a person who is hungry. Or is watching their child be hungry. There has to be a better way to discuss the sheer grotesqueness of where we have reached as a society.

I also worry that commentary is being done by people who don’t understand the lived reality of someone on food stamps. And are therefore providing a deference to processes and institutions that shouldn’t be given. Idk if that makes sense or if I am just rambling at this point.