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BumRushDaShow

(162,456 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 03:14 AM Oct 18

Supreme Court to run out of funding due to shutdown

Source: The Hill

10/17/25 3:38 PM ET


The Supreme Court is about to run out of money, and federal courts across the country are expected to run out by early next week because of the government shutdown.

The nation’s top court “expects to run out of funding on October 18,” Patricia McCabe, Supreme Court public information officer, told The Hill. “As a result, the Supreme Court Building will be closed to the public until further notice. The Building will remain open for official business,” McCabe continued.

“The Supreme Court will continue to conduct essential work such as hearing oral arguments, issuing orders and opinions, processing case filings, and providing police and building support needed for those operations.” Federal courts are expected to see their funding dry up Oct. 20, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said Friday.

“Federal judges will continue to serve, in accordance with the Constitution, but court staff may only perform certain excepted activities permitted under the Anti-Deficiency Act,” the office said in a statement.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/5561016-federal-courts-shutdown-impact/

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Be Leave On

(356 posts)
3. closed doors
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 05:58 AM
Oct 18

Somehow, the idea of them meeting unsupervised behind closed doors to come to their decisions doesn't improve my confidence in them..

not fooled

(6,497 posts)
12. 6(66) of them probably have been meeting in secret for a long time
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 11:04 AM
Oct 18

at the nearest country club or billionaire's house. Plotting the downfall of the country in order to turn it into a "christian" oligarchy.



no_hypocrisy

(53,594 posts)
4. Gee, what a shame. Guess that means the lower federal courts'
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 06:40 AM
Oct 18

decisions dictate that TSF has to follow them w/o his buddies at SCOTUS reversing them.

Polybius

(21,057 posts)
14. But all forthcoming executive orders might stand
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 11:35 AM
Oct 18

The federal courts won't be funded either.

no_hypocrisy

(53,594 posts)
15. Let's say that a federal court has invalidated an Executive Order, but it's been appealed
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 12:12 PM
Oct 18

to SCOTUS.

No money, no SCOTUS. The federal court decision holds for now.

Polybius

(21,057 posts)
20. I said "forthcoming"
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:48 PM
Oct 18

Meaning after the federal courts run out of money. So, if he signs a new executive order after they run out.

Farmer-Rick

(12,230 posts)
6. What makes the Nazi judges on the Supremes
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:08 AM
Oct 18

Think pedo Trump will continue paying them? Yeah ... it's in the US Constitution but they gave pedo Trump immunity. What are they going to do to him if he stops paying them?

I can't imagine Clarence working for free.

BComplex

(9,657 posts)
16. I've always wondered what they thought about him firing one of them
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 12:53 PM
Oct 18

He thinks he's the king.

Farmer-Rick

(12,230 posts)
17. Exactly
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 01:06 PM
Oct 18

And pedo Trump will turn on them like he turns on everyone he thinks is in his pocket.

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