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The Trump administration will undoubtedly appeal, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court. But for now, millions of people across the country will not have to make hard choices about how to feed themselves and their families. Several states that had already declared emergencies to tackle the impending crisis will have at least some temporary relief.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Those shitheads haven't listened to any judges yet, they aren't starting now. SCrOTUS let the orange cancer be above the law.

The only positive thing is that this will hurt MAGAts more. They'll get to experience what they voted for. Thankfully my blue state has already started shuffling funding toward feeding people here.

The way this admin wields power reminds me of one of my favorite video game quotes.

"It's not a cudgel you barbarian..." -Cortana

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

So how is the judiciary expected to enforce this?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

By giving Trump demerits on the demerit board

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

At the very least, maybe there will be a few people whose echo chambers ring with “it’s the dems fault”, who will hear this and finally start to think.

Presidential elections hinge on one or two percent of voters do every little bit helps

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Not sure, but it does give Republicans an additional roadblock in their propaganda campaign to blame Democrats.

If people do start going hungry, the GOP might not like the reaction they get from some people in their own base.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 39 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 19 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This is good, because people won't go hungry

This is bad, because concessions and breadcrumbs like this will prevent people from overthrowing this tyrant

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

Then people lacking long term health care - like Luigi - will be better soldiers than starving people.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Looks like he's ignoring it

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 103 points 1 day ago (24 children)

They will appeal to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court will sign in their favor, meanwhile they will not spend any money.

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At some point I expect the admin to admit they already spent the money. What will the courts do then?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

That wouldn't do anything at all. The government simply spends money into existence. If the judge tells them to pay SNAP, then they magic the money into existence.

The federal government cannot run out of money, it can only increase inflation.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

No that just opens opportunity for more delay by saying “the right thing”. At that point MAGAts can say they cant spend money Congress hasn’t allocated, and is blocked on the shutdown.

In this case the executive does have a certain amount of money already allocated by Congress that they can spend to support critical government functions. Part of that was explicitly allocated to fund SNAP in case of a shutdown. But they’re also making choices like spending billions on ice and border patrol to terrorize dark skinned people and to suppress voting. Are those really critical government functions? Should they really be higher priority than keeping citizens from starving?

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Nothing. It will have been a "presidential duty" immune from consequences, as ordained by the bootlickers in the SCrOTUS.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm sure at some point a judge ordered Hitler to stop killing Jews.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Hitler literally got a law passed so that a judge couldn't block him from doing anything. So until Trump has his Reischtag fire and declares a state of emergency it's not really comparable.

Enabling Act

Passed shortly after Hitler became Chancellor, the Act effectively transferred significant legislative authority from the Reichstag (the German parliament) to Hitler and his cabinet, allowing them to enact laws without parliamentary consent. The Act also permitted amendments to the constitution and control over the national budget. Despite its ostensibly reassuring language regarding the roles of the president and parliament, the Enabling Act fundamentally undermined democratic governance in Germany.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We already had the "official acts" SCOTUS ruling instead.

[–] Curmuffin@fedia.io 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The ruling which states that SCOTUS itself is the final arbiter of what constitutes an "official act." So if (lol) there's ever a non-GOP president again, SCOTUS has the ability to take away Presidential Immunity whenever asked to rule on a relevant case. A neat trick that everyone seemed to forget during the Biden admin.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 23 hours ago

There's no fire. He just paid a bunch of people to tear down the white house.

Sure, he'll probably blame Dems

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[–] thehowlingnorth@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Trump administration will undoubtedly appeal, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court.

That's gonna be a good look for them. /s

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Doesn't matter how it looks. Cult members won't care, trump will ignore the order, people will starve.

The cruelty is literally the whole point. This administration is evil.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think they're even going to bother to appeal as much as they're just going to ignore a court order... again.

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