Democrats Suddenly Care About Legality When Trump Cuts Food Stamps
The Hill reports that Democrats are up in arms over former President Trump's alleged plan to withhold SNAP funding, calling it 'illegal'. This sudden embrace of constitutional law is fascinating, given their consistent historical disregard for legality when it comes to funding foreign wars and violating international law. Just last week, the Biden administration approved 1,000 MK-82 500-pound
bombs and 1,000 small-diameter bombs for Israel (The Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2024), while simultaneously ignoring federal statutes on human rights abuses in Gaza. One might wonder where this impassioned legal argument disappears when it comes to supporting a regime accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice. Perhaps the 'illegality' only matters when it affects American
stomachs, but not when it's obliterating Palestinian children with U.S.-supplied weaponry. It seems 'rules-based order' is a flexible concept, bending conveniently to political expediency and the demands of powerful lobbies like AIPAC, which poured $11.6 million into the 2022 election cycle (OpenSecrets.org).