[HN Gopher] Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP conti...
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       Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingency money
       amid shutdown
        
       Author : jrflowers
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-10-31 21:19 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (abcnews.go.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (abcnews.go.com)
        
       | Acrobatic_Road wrote:
       | >After an hour-long emergency hearing, Judge McConnell ruled that
       | the suspension of SNAP funding is arbitrary and likely to cause
       | irreparable harm, citing the "terror" felt by Americans who are
       | scrambling to meet their basic nutritional needs.
       | 
       | Not irreparable hard. Irreparable harm can NEVER be about money
       | because you can always get the money later. SNAP is just a cash
       | transfer.
        
         | cultofmetatron wrote:
         | > SNAP is just a cash transfer.
         | 
         | Id argue that not having food because you didn't receive a
         | needed cash transfer, esspecially when children are affected
         | would definitely constitute "Irreparable harm."
        
           | Acrobatic_Road wrote:
           | You can receive SNAP and spend the same amount on groceries
           | as you did without SNAP. Then you are free to use the money
           | you would have spent on groceries for other things. So it's
           | just a cash transfer. This is about money, not food.
           | 
           | If this causes irreparable harm, then by the same precedent,
           | the government would never be allowed to reduce spending on
           | any program that could reduce poor people's income, because
           | they _could_ have spent some of that income on food.
        
             | cultofmetatron wrote:
             | am I suppossed to have an issue with someone having their
             | groceries paid for by snap can now afford rent and
             | maintenence costs for their home?
        
       | hdlothia wrote:
       | Biden and Obama appointees ruling against the admin, probably to
       | be overturned by republican nominated judges. Have judges gotten
       | more partisan recently or has it always been like this.
       | 
       | Hopefully some people at least get money for food in the mean
       | time.
        
         | Acrobatic_Road wrote:
         | Since SNAP is a national program you can file a lawsuit
         | anywhere. The groups that sue the Trump admin know this. That's
         | why they filed suit in Rhode Island which is part of the 1st
         | circuit where you are almost guaranteed to get a liberal judge.
        
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