The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
Justice Jackson issued the ruling. I went to Bluesky to try to figure out what was going on with her fucking sportsball ruling. I saw people calling it a “wizard move”. But there were no good explanations about why and how so I googled.
I found a Substack by a lib lawyer. He calls it a “a very quick explainer” but he drones on and on and on and on and fucking on. I skipped 90% of it. Jackson’s lib logic seems to be by doing this herself - she thinks she’ll get a better outcome because if the GOP justices issued the ruling - the results would be (much?) worse.
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an “administrative stay” in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what’s likely to happen next
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In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control the timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have.
In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree, but which strikes me as eminently defensible under these unique (and, let’s be clear, maddening and entirely f-ing avoidable) circumstances.
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From where I’m sitting, that’s why Justice Jackson, the most vocal critic among the justices of the Court’s behavior in Trump-related emergency applications, ruled herself here—rather than allowing the full Court to overrule her. It drastically increases the odds of the full Supreme Court resolving this issue by the end of next week—one way or the other.
Justice Jackson issued the ruling. I went to Bluesky to try to figure out what was going on with her fucking sportsball ruling. I saw people calling it a “wizard move”. But there were no good explanations about why and how so I googled.
I found a Substack by a lib lawyer. He calls it a “a very quick explainer” but he drones on and on and on and on and fucking on. I skipped 90% of it. Jackson’s lib logic seems to be by doing this herself - she thinks she’ll get a better outcome because if the GOP justices issued the ruling - the results would be (much?) worse.
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