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2025-11-05 News & Politics
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Legal Challenge Escalates as Trump Threatens to Defy Court Order on SNAP Funding

Learn why Democracy Forward filed an emergency motion after President Trump openly threatened to withhold crucial SNAP benefits, using food assistance as partisan leverage against a court mandate. This segment reveals the legal urgency when vital aid is held hostage during government disputes.

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  • Trump openly threatened to defy a court order by rationing SNAP funds based on political opposition goals post-shutdown.
  • Democracy Forward immediately filed documents alerting the judge to the defiance and the administration's slow rollout of partial benefits.
  • Legal experts confirm this politicization of essential food aid, impacting 42 million people, is both unlawful and morally reprehensible.

Skye Perryman discusses the legal maneuvering required to force the administration to comply with judicial orders mandating full SNAP payments for millions of Americans.

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Donald Trump threatened to defy a court order demanding that he fully fund SNAP benefits for more than 42 million people in the United States through November. Skye Perryman, whose organization Democracy Forward brought one of the lawsuits against Trump, reacts to Trump's threatened withholding of SNAP funding for "political leverage." Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News hosts. All Rise News: https://www.allrisenews.com/ https://x.com/AllRiseNews https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qreqgceochjnniqhr4osqye5 Adam's Socials: https://x.com/klasfeldreports?lang=en https://bsky.app/profile/klasfeldreports.com Democracy Forward: https://democracyforward.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mrzkurwfkul52ofdvpp7esgf X: https://x.com/democracyfwd Skye's Socials Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pm2b6fpr75r5nbpycmr6rla2 X: https://x.com/skyeperryman?lang=en Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF by MeidasTouch podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595

Top Comments (10)

@SazaSaza-j7e 2025-11-05

A convicted felon ignoring the law should be behind bars

386 14 replies
@SharynKoren 2025-11-05

Still no consequences for the cruel maggot

268 13 replies
@janet5610 2025-11-05

He is trying to hold the people for ransom????? Extortion???? Sounds illegal to me.

263 9 replies
@zendoll1 2025-11-05

Then he needs to be held in Contempt.

256 11 replies
@8514-o1n 2025-11-05

Even threatening to ignore a court order is justification for removing him from office.

221 8 replies
@sittingonariver 2025-11-05

The cruelty is the lowest this country has ever sunk. Starvation? As a weapon?

167 18 replies
@AprilJones-Foston 2025-11-05

LOCK HIM UP 🤬🤬🤬

138 1 replies
@IndependenceontheWay 2025-11-05

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS FUNDED SNAP, WIC ,AND HEALTHCARE. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS STEALING FROM AMERICA

126 6 replies
@brianpowers3742 2025-11-05

Who would have thought that a criminal, in the highest office in the land , would do criminal things?

67 3 replies
@davidmanory4342 2025-11-05

Judges do your job!

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