🚨🚨BIG BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Trump on SNAP funding – [UPDATE: Ketanji Jackson the one who blocked ruling]

by The Right Scoop

The Supreme Court just issued a judgment, overruling a lower court decision today, allowing President Trump to pause SNAP funding, pending a review by the court.

Here’s the news:

 
Here’s more from CNBC:

The Supreme Court on Friday night paused a federal judge’s order that the Trump administration must pay full SNAP benefits to 42 million Americans for November by the end of the day.

The move came hours after a federal appeals court in Boston denied the administration’s request to halt the order, which relates to food stamp benefits for one-in-every-eight Americans.

It is not clear to what extent the Supreme Court ruling will actually affect the payments of SNAP benefits.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier Friday told states it would begin disbursing full SNAP benefits to comply with the federal district court order, even as the administration appealed the ruling.

The USDA’s memo did not suggest that the administration would renege on that plan even if a higher court blocked the order.

The federal judge issued his decision, forcing Trump to pay the full benefits for November during the shutdown. An appeals court allowed the order to stand, and then, of course, the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court tonight.

What a big victory for Trump and well deserved. We’ll see how the administration responds with SNAP benefits now, given that all they have are emergency funds. As I’ve said before, this is not an emergency and the courts should not be able to forced Trump to disburse money just because Chuck Schumer is holding Americans hostage for his own political power.

 
UPDATE: According to the Washington Post, the block came from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Friday evening temporarily blocked a judge’s order directing the Trump administration to release November food assistance benefits in full.

Jackson issued an administrative stay, pausing for now lower-court rulings that the Trump administration had resisted amid a legal battle over whether federal officials would deliver the funds.

Earlier Friday, the Trump administration had said it was working to release the benefits to comply with a court order, suggesting that the money would indeed be disbursed for a program that is a vital lifeline for millions of people who rely on it to afford groceries.

In her brief order, Jackson said she was pausing the lower court’s directives to allow an appeals court time to issue a ruling on the matter.

 
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