cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38674008
The supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments.
The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown.
After that request to block was denied, the Trump administration turned to the supreme court in a further attempt to block the order to fully fund Snap food aid payments.
The application to stay reads: “If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds. Worse, these harms will only compound if the decision below stands.
If he has done that, then he’s broken federal law, and will be facing criminal charges and most likely jail time, once he’s out of office. That goes for anyone else who helped him, as well.
Jail? At this point?
Their crimes against humanity have far exceeded that, and this entire administration exists at all so their pedo hitler can dodge jail.
If there’s any justice, their regime will be facing a pockmarked wall, or the end of a rope.
Hey! It’s obviously your first day on the Internet. Glad to have you here, welcome!
Now, before you comment further, I suggest you do a little study of American history over the last decade.
Then get back to us with your thoughts.
Donald Trump has a certain degree of immunity for official acts only. The people who work for him do not. The only thing protecting any of them right now, is the fact that he’s still in office. Once he’s out, everyone who committed crimes on his behalf, are all going to be charged.
And even he is open to prosecution for anything that can be proven to have been committed for purely personal gain (which is almost everything he does).
You may not remember this, but every single one of the lawyers who did his dirty work after the 2020 election, to try and flip the results…have all been found guilty of crimes and misdemeanors…and had their law licenses taken away. This shit does have consequences. Trump himself is just really good at gaming the system, thanks to the fact that he has so much money to burn on his own defense. But even that will only go so far.
Speaking of lawyers, I just read an article today about all the lawyers that have been fired from the DOJ, and how they are all forming law firms with various specialties going after MAGA crimes - immigration issues, fired federal workers, etc. By firing all those lawyers, he seeded the legal resistance that will give legal authority to the punishments of him and his henchmen.
That’s very good news.
It’s extremely encouraging. I love that the people he is abusing aren’t just slinking away like the MAGAs expected (because thats how cowardly MAGAs would behave), they are firing back.
That’s the legal world, which isn’t known for cooperation. So what are the fired Generals doing? They are known for lockstep organization, and I doubt they are slinking away away, either. Generals aren’t usually known for their lack of courage, but they are known for their ability to keep quiet about their plans. If the lawyers are organizing against MAGA, it’s a pretty good bet that the Generals are, too.
I wish! Every time a MAGA gets busted for something terrible or ruins themselves, they end up with published ghostwritten books full of their whining and excessive airtime on FOX News and various nutter podcasts. Lol
But yes what these lawyers are doing sounds FAR more productive and that’s awesome. :D
This is the best news I’ve heard all weekend. Do you have any sources you can share?
My girlfriend and I just toasted yesterday to Mamdani’s win and Cheney’s loss. With shit getting worse by the day, it’s been a long time since we’ve had anything to look forward to.
This was the article:
The new law firms being founded to fight Trump
Here’s another good one that covers a lot of the same territory:
Former DOJ lawyers switch sides
I Googled Fired DOJ Lawyers Form Boutique Law Firms, and these articles was first, and a whole bunch more followed.
Very encouraging.
Thank you! I’m still not ready to hope for things, but this is fantastic news!
Want some more hope? What are the Generals thinking?
After the Generals were all summoned to a Come To Jesus meeting led by UberPutz Pistol Pete Hegseth, EVERY report said that they were beyond offended, beyond pissed off. They were treated like children, and they are massively pissed off about it. They HATE these guys.
The lawyers are banding together to fight back, instead of slinking away in humiliation, as they were supposed to do. Surely the ignominiously fired Generals will react differently, and after a lifetime of service to this country, they’ll just retire quietly, and just stand by and watch as their beloved country goes the Nazis that they spent their lives fighting, right? Does that sound like a General?
MAGA is stupid enough to believe that. We know what the fired lawyers are doing, but Generals aren’t exactly known for revealing their plans in advance. I doubt they are sipping mai tais on the veranda in their retirement. At least a some of them are in contact with their old colleagues, and planning for…something.
Whatever it is, I doubt it’s going to be good for MAGA.
I will always accept more hope. These are really strong points.
There are probably numerous similar bands of scorned professionals working together after being burned by Trump.
Lol ok bud.
Wake the fuck up
I honestly can"t tell if you’re serious…
I am serious. They can just keep adding it to the list of charges that will be levelled against him, once he’s removed from office. Steve Bannon wasn’t joking when he said they will all be going to prison, when this is over.
He never did time for any of the crimes he committed last time he was in office. What reason is there to believe it’ll be different this time?
That was because they started investigating those cases a little late. But the cases against him would have warranted prison time, if they had gone to trial.
This time around, he’s doing even more illegal shit, and being super obviously about it. He doesn’t seem to understand that everything he’s doing is going to be used against him. His reckoning is coming.
Birds aren’t real