As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

cool to mention SNAP, which was unpaid because the admin chose to affirmatively suspend it, and not due to the shutdown, and ICE being paid "due to a special law" when they were being illegally paid despite the shutdown. So in both cases not tied to the shutdown, but the admin's general lawlessness