The Supreme Court just decided that feeding Americans is optional. In an emergency order Friday, the Court sided with the Trump administration and temporarily blocked full SNAP food-aid payments, a move that reads less like justice and more like a late-night impulse swipe on political Tinder.
Let’s be clear. The administration illegally froze funding that Congress already approved to keep families from going hungry during the shutdown it created. And instead of upholding the law, the justices leaned over the counter and asked, “Would you like fries with that injustice?”
This isn’t jurisprudence. It’s junk food for authoritarians salty, fast, and destined to make the country sick.
A Government Starving Its Own People
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program isn’t a luxury. It’s the thin line keeping millions from going to bed hungry. Blocking it mid-crisis is the moral equivalent of locking the fire exits during a blaze and calling it fiscal discipline.
Republicans keep whining about “welfare abuse” while their donors dine on tax-free loopholes and subsidized contracts. The real abuse is political gluttony, gorging on power while ordinary Americans ration canned beans.
The Court’s Rotten Combo Meal
What’s worse is how routine this has become. A Supreme Court once meant to balance government power now serves as a loyalty rewards club for Trumpism. Swipe right on cruelty, earn points toward lifetime appointments. Swipe left on humanity, and you’re suddenly “originalist.”
Every emergency order like this chips away at the nation’s soul. They’re no longer interpreting the Constitution, they’re interpreting Trump’s mood swings.
If the founders could see this greasy parody of justice, they’d grab the parchment, wipe off the oil stains, and start over.
Hunger Isn’t a Political Negotiation
People are lining up at food banks, not because they’re lazy, but because the richest country on Earth can’t decide whether compassion is constitutional. The administration’s behavior is illegal. The Court’s endorsement of it is unconscionable. Together, they’ve turned “government by the people” into “government by the privileged or the performative.”
America doesn’t need another sermon about fiscal responsibility from men who bill taxpayers for private jets. It needs accountability. It needs empathy. It needs a Supreme Court that remembers the word justice isn’t supposed to be ironic.
Until then, this “Supreme” Court remains what it’s shown itself to be a cold, stale Big Mac under a heat lamp, served up by a system that’s forgotten what real nourishment looks like.
PRAGMATIC ISSUES 