{"id":19677,"date":"2025-11-08T05:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=19677"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:17:41","slug":"schlechte-richter-schlechte-freunde-der-supreme-court-bremst-hungerhilfe-waehrend-orban-in-washington-hofiert-wird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/schlechte-richter-schlechte-freunde-der-supreme-court-bremst-hungerhilfe-waehrend-orban-in-washington-hofiert-wird\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Judges, Bad Friends - The Supreme Court Slows Hunger Aid as Orb\u00e1n Is Courted in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington \u2013 The events are unfolding rapidly today, and it has become a bitter day for millions of Americans who rely on food assistance. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Friday evening, in an emergency decision, that the government of Donald Trump may temporarily halt full SNAP payments for November. With this ruling, the nation\u2019s highest court \u2013 at the request of the White House \u2013 overturned the previous decisions by District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. and the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which had required the government to pay full benefits to those in need across the country. A decision that leaves one speechless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case bears the docket number No. 25A104 \u2013 USDA v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al., and the decision was issued through what is known as the shadow docket \u2013 without a public hearing, without a written opinion, and within just a few hours. Ketanji Brown Jackson has temporarily suspended the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the Court of Appeals decides on further action. The path now runs through the appeals court in Boston, and then back again, as appeals are expected \u2013 returning to the Supreme Court, where the \u201cClub of Six\u201d awaits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See also our article: \u201cHow Six Supreme Court Justices Revived the Spirit of the Third Reich\u201d at https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wie-sechs-richter-des-supreme-court-den-geist-des-dritten-reichs-zurueckbrachten\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Trump celebrated. Amid the ongoing government shutdown, his administration had argued that there were no sufficient funds left in the emergency reserve to cover the month of November in full. But the true motive is political: a president who funnels billions into special budgets for the military and border enforcement wants to tell the poorest Americans there is no money left for bread, milk, and rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many, many people are trying to help those in need<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In front of supermarkets and food banks across the country, lines formed again that same day. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, families waited for hours in their cars to receive at least some food at an impromptu distribution event organized by \u201cFood on the Move.\u201d \u201cWe have three children, and the fridge is empty,\u201d said a woman who asked not to be named. In California, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, authorities had already begun the payments \u2013 now they are stopped, while the Supreme Court reviews whether the injunction will remain in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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