Evidently thinking being “right” about their already incoherent legal position is more important than, you know, the politics of depriving less fortunate Americans – many of them MAGA – of the meager food assistance they depend on, the Trump Administration on Friday appealed to the First Circuit to overturn Rhode Island federal Judge John J McConnell’s order for them to cough it up.
“This unprecedented injunction makes a mockery of the separation of powers. Courts hold neither the power to appropriate nor the power to spend. Courts are charged with enforcing the law, but the law is explicit that SNAP benefits are subject to available appropriations,” Team Orange wrote in the appeal, which children going to bed without dinner will totally understand and accept.