The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
      • KnitWit@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 hours ago

        I agree with that being her rationale, although I’m not sure if I agree that it was the correct move. Kind of a damned if you do/damned if you don’t situation, but since 4(ish) states were able to fire off the paperwork in time so that they have now disbursed that money, then maybe having the relief come from the other justices would’ve delayed its implementation enough that other states could’ve gotten in front of it as well. Would’ve at least gotten one more set of payments out before the conservatives shut it down for good.

        Red states obviously wouldn’t have, but they’ll probably refuse to release the money even if the SC somehow rules correctly. All the blue governors should have been on top of that like the 4 who were, but it’s moot now.

        I have no reason to doubt Ketanji Brown Jackson felt she was doing what she felt was right though, so we’ll just have to see how everything plays out.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          3·
          15 hours ago

          A whole bunch of Democratic-leaning states made an attempt to load peoples debit cards between the appeals decision and the Supreme Court stay. I have no idea to what extent they succeeded. If they did, we may end up with a month of Democratic areas being less hungry than Republican-majority ones

          • KnitWit@lemmy.world
            5·
            15 hours ago

            From what I read, four were successful (CA, WA, HI, and someone else I forget) and the Hawaiian secretary of state said they had everything ready to go beforehand after assuming there would be a stay put in place again. Not trying to throw any shade towards Jackson, it’s just disappointing that the current state if the country is ‘what is the best way one SC Justice can gum up the works enough ti allow starving people to eat before the conservative majority tramples all over it.’