Vice President JD Vance is blatantly attacking the Constitution’s separation of powers after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program.

Speaking in the White House Thursday, Vance called the ruling “absurd,” because “you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.”

“What we’d like to do is to have the Democrats open up the government, of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people,” Vance said. “But in the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”

  • tornavish@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know what that drivel is supposed to mean, but I’m sure it is just that.

    You do not have the ability to see the bigger picture because you are too busy celebrating a small ineffective victory. You refuse to acknowledge that it is not a victory, and will be shot down days from its decision. You lack foresight because you are afraid.

    Focus your energy on the problem and not the people reminding you that there is still a problem.

        • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          5 hours ago

          Again, your original argument is that the courts don’t do chicken shit to stop the administration.

          Your entire argument here rests on Trump being granted a temporary emergency stay by a democratic supreme court justice. That stay is set to expire after the lower appeals court makes a final decision regarding the second order given by judge McConnell, that USDA provide full SNAP funding vs only providing the partial funding the administration already agreed to pay after McConnell’s first order was handed down the week before.

          Why did the Trump administration seek an emergency stay from the supreme court in a district where they knew the case would be decided by a Biden appointee? Because the circuit court making the final decision on McConnell’s ruling, declined to grant the administration a stay when they first appealed. The Trump administration then cited the lower court’s refusal to grant a stay, to their running list of examples they claim are targeted acts of unfair “judiciary activism” by democratically appointed judges. In other words, they are claiming any orders handed down by judges that hinder the administration’s agenda are politically motivated attacks against the administration, while actually carrying out politically motivated bullshit like using SNAP funds as a bargaining chip.

          US Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in food aid funding for now

          Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who issued the stay, set it to expire two days after the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules on the administration’s request to halt a judge’s order that the U.S. Department of Agriculture promptly pay the full amount of this month’s SNAP benefits, which cost $8.5 billion to $9 billion per month.

          Jackson, the liberal justice assigned to review emergency appeals from a group of states that include Rhode Island, said the 1st Circuit was expected to rule on the administration’s request to block McConnell’s order “with dispatch.” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi noted the Supreme Court’s decision in a post on X, which paused a court ruling she deemed “judicial activism at its worst.”

          Pretty sure you’re well aware of this already, but when you argue that judges “don’t do chicken shit,”/might as well not even exist, guess who you’re actually helping by spreading disinformation and propaganda?

          DOJ’s No. 2 Official Asks Lawyers to Join ‘War’ Against Judges

          “It’s a war, man,” Blanche, the deputy attorney general, told judges and lawyers Friday at a Federalist Society event in Washington, before describing instances where the government has ping-ponged between lower and appellate courts. “It’s happening over and over and over again.”

          The DOJ is saying they are at war, and targeting the judges you claim with such certainty don’t actually do “chicken shit.” If you’re looking for work, you’d make a very useful tool for the DOJ’s propaganda machine. For some reason they need to eliminate those “useless” Federal judges and their meddling “judicial activism” that doesn’t actually do anything.

          • tornavish@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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            5 hours ago

            If you want to wrap quotes around something that I said, make sure it’s something that I said not something that you are paraphrasing

            • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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              5 hours ago

              Your argument was literally that JD Vance was correct in saying judges don’t have authority over Trump. You then said you believed Vance was correct because judges haven’t done chicken shit to stop Trump.

              Then you continued to argue the courts won’t ever be able to stop the all powerful king, despite those no king protests that haven’t done anything. Again, you seem to know exactly what you’re doing, and who you’re actually helping by doing it. I’m done. Bye.