Hello and welcome to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, November 11. I'm Andrew Wiseman,

and I am here with Mary McCord. Hello, Mary. Good morning and happy

Veterans Day, Andrew. You know, I was thinking about that today. Well, I mean, I'm so proud of all the

veterans that have been standing up and speaking out about things, including some of the things that

we're going to talk about today, not only the deployments of the National Guard domestically, but also the strikes on international waters.

And frankly, just in support of democratic processes and elections, we've seen a number of veterans groups and veterans families really being involved civically.

And I am so grateful not only for their service, but also for what they're doing in continued service to the country.

Yeah, I thought about on a personal level, my dad was a veteran and served as a doctor in the

army. He passed away several years ago. So it's a time to really think about just how much

we owe people who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the country and are just such a

great model. And you should do it all the time, but it's great to have a day where you can sort of

stop and think about it. And yes, it does relate

to what we're going to talk about, but even apart from all of that, it's just a great time to

give thanks and remembrance. With that, Mary, you mentioned that it's going to relate to things

we're going to talk about. So what are we going to talk about? Yes. So we are going to start out with two big, big deal cases that are brewing on emergency

motions in the Supreme Court right now. The cases involving the attempted cutoff of SNAP

benefits, as we talked about last week, and we had a flurry of activity over the weekend,

including briefs filed both last night and this

morning. You know, America likes to say they're the richest country in the world, and that one in eight

people are eligible for SNAP benefits. Leave aside partisanship, leave aside the law here,

leave aside the cruelty of not giving these funds out.

What does it say that we're not prioritizing hunger as an issue? It's a remarkable thing.

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