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With this extension of the administrative stay, the Roberts Court is exhibiting moral depravity. 4/4
I've been saying that after we dislodge the fascists, we need to expand the Court to 13 seats to create a 7-6 liberal majority.
With almost every new ruling from #SCOTUS I'm leaning more toward "Let's arrest the majority right away, and let the #InternationalCriminalCourt sort them out."
This is important to understand:
The problem is not that the federal government doesn't have the money to pay #SNAP benefits. Tax revenue hasn't stopped coming in during the shutdown. There is plenty of money.
The problem is that the the #Trump administration and the corrupt #SCOTUS are just fine with upending precedent and rewriting laws to give Trump and the #GOP more power, but not with interpreting existing law in a completely reasonable way to feed starving children.
#politics #USPol
This is important to understand:
The problem is not that the federal government doesn't have the money to pay #SNAP benefits. Tax revenue hasn't stopped coming in during the shutdown. There is plenty of money.
The problem is that the the #Trump administration and the corrupt #SCOTUS are just fine with upending precedent and rewriting laws to give Trump and the #GOP more power, but not with interpreting existing law in a completely reasonable way to feed starving children.
#politics #USPol
In honor of the news today that SCOTUS has decided not to overturn the Obergefell ruling, I would like to share this heartwarming story once again:
"The Love Story Behind Alabama's First Legally Married Same-Sex Couple"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/the-love-story-behind-alabamas-first-legally-married-same-se
#USpol #ALpol #SCOTUS #GayRights #LGBTQ #BibleBeltQueers #YallMeansAll
🚨🚨 #SCOTUS rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide 🚨🚨
The #SupremeCourt on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #SameSexMarriage nationwide.
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to #SameSex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in #Obergefell v. Hodges.
#law #LGBTQ #HumanRights #love
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
In honor of the news today that SCOTUS has decided not to overturn the Obergefell ruling, I would like to share this heartwarming story once again:
"The Love Story Behind Alabama's First Legally Married Same-Sex Couple"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/the-love-story-behind-alabamas-first-legally-married-same-se
#USpol #ALpol #SCOTUS #GayRights #LGBTQ #BibleBeltQueers #YallMeansAll
#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.
#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown-c633d646f08f395e7d157d1145eaf727?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.
#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown-c633d646f08f395e7d157d1145eaf727?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
🚨🚨 #SCOTUS rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide 🚨🚨
The #SupremeCourt on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #SameSexMarriage nationwide.
The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to #SameSex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in #Obergefell v. Hodges.
#law #LGBTQ #HumanRights #love
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-10-Breaking+News
The cruelty is the point:
Report: The US Supreme Court has allowed Trump to pause full food-aid (SNAP) payments, delaying aid to 42m people.
The SCOTUS order also pauses a demand by a federal judge for the govt to release full funding.
SNAP benefits lapsed at the start of November for the first time in the program’s 60-year history. Many recipients have had to turn to charity food pantries.
#SNAP #USpol #Europol #SCOTUS #Trump #Classism #Racism #News .
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but wait there’s more!
#SCOTUS Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson has temporarily paused a lower court order that had required the #Trump admin to fully fund #FoodStamps during the govt #shutdown. In the order, Justice Jackson said she had issued the pause, called an administrative stay, to give the appeals court that will rule on the case more time to consider it. She wrote that she expected the appeals court to move swiftly & to issue a decision “with dispatch.”
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown/e1a69962-4311-5d11-8e32-c09d4f6c561c?smid=url-share
…there ain’t no rest for the wicked…
#SCOTUS granted #Trump *emergency* appeal to temporarily block a #CourtOrder to FULLY fund #SNAP #food #aid payments amid the government #shutdown.
#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Aristocracy #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #Aporophobia #FoodStamps #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInequity #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-SNAP+update
Ah, there it is. Adverse shadow docket decision from SCOTUS on passports for trans and nonbinary people.
Looking forward to hearing what Lambda Legal has to say, and then what the advice is for those of us who are impacted.
An emerging theme, from the conservative justices, is that the president’s concededly broad power to shut down #trade generally may include the lesser power to impose #tariffs. That echoes the admin’s position.
Justice #Sotomayor jumped into the questioning & refocused the case back on a primary argument against the tariff programs, that the #Constitution gives #Congress, NOT the president, the #power to #tax.
#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy
We are approaching the 2½-hour mark in #SCOTUS’ tariff oral argument. So far, the justices have heard argument in defense of Trump’s #tariffs from Solicitor General D. John Sauer. They then heard the argument against the tariffs from Neal #Katyal, lawyer for small businesses who challenged the tariffs.
Now, they are listening to the argument against the tariffs by Benjamin Gutman, the solicitor general of Oregon, who represents a group of states that challenged the tariffs.
Arguments are finally getting underway after a late start.
First up is Solicitor General D. John Sauer, Trump’s top Supreme Court lawyer, arguing for the #Trump admin.
The court has allotted 80 minutes for arguments, but they will almost certainly extend well into early afternoon.
One major issue hanging over oral arguments is the extent to which the #Trump admin must refund tariff revenue in the event that the justices find its policies to be illegal.
Speaking on behalf of the challengers, #Katyal acknowledged it is a “difficult” question. But he generally seemed to suggest the court had many options at its disposal & could reconcile that later—including, for example, by limiting its decision “to prospective relief.”
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