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Trump OUTSMARTED by Justice Jackson on SUPREME COURT Appeal?!?

2025-11-09 News & Politics
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Justice Jackson's Strategic Stay in the SNAP Funding Dispute

Understand why Justice Jackson issued a temporary stay allowing the Trump administration to temporarily withhold SNAP funds—it was a calculated maneuver to force the First Circuit's hand and curb potential long-term damage from the full Supreme Court.

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  • Justice Jackson issued a time-limited administrative stay, buying crucial time for the First Circuit to rule on the formal stay pending appeal.
  • The administration's legal arguments against fully funding the $4 billion in benefits appeared severely lacking during prior lower court appeals.
  • The action strategically aimed to prevent the conservative Supreme Court majority from intervening immediately with an open-ended and precedent-setting delay.

This analysis explains the complex legal maneuvering behind the ruling to temporarily pause required SNAP benefits that a district court had ordered be distributed.

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Why would Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson allow the Trump administration to continue withholding food from children and their families? SNAP provides food assistance to some 40 million people and frankly its inexplicable why the Trump administration is fighting tooth and nail to avoid using funds it has to fully fund the program. It might seem equally inexplicable why Justice Jackson would seemingly side with the administration but there’s more to it - Shan Wu breaks it down. 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)

@PKing-px5dg 2025-11-09

Starting a war and starving your own citizens is called TREASON! Period!

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@HockeynanaAk 2025-11-09

She is OUTPLAYING the cheater chess player

158 3 replies
@coyotezee 2025-11-09

The important absurdity is that Speaker Johnson first claimed the government wanted to help these poor hungry people but did not have the legal authority to fund SNAP. Then they were ordered by the courts to fund SNAP. So suddenly it no longer wanted to fund SNAP and challenged the order. Hypocrisy and cruelty.

156 4 replies
@ThePainter57 2025-11-09

Hungry children don't care about any of this.

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@myfon8615 2025-11-09

He says we have trillions of tariff profit. Everyone should have free Thanksgiving meals and SNAP benefits.

140 10 replies
@gwine9087 2025-11-09

Remember when it didn't take judges days, weeks, or months to decide? Good times.

102 2 replies
@billpii6314 2025-11-09

Trump doesn't want to feed people while he is having lavish dinner parties at Mar-a-Lago. He just told us to "eat cake." MAD YET?

78 2 replies
@tennyceb 2025-11-09

It comes down to he is starving U.S. into submission

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@JC_johannaclear 2025-11-09

When people don’t have money for food, they pay less on rent. They buy food. You can expect a wave of evictions if this is not resolved.

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@bianca-sg8zq 2025-11-10

Good for Justice Jackson to have thought so thoroughly about how to back the Trump regime into a corner. I knew there was more to the story. Thank you!

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