On Wednesday, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 emergency ruling refused to halt a judge’s decision ordering the Trump administration to immediately release nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments owed under existing contracts.
It hands a loss to the administration in the first time that Trump’s efforts to drastically reshape federal spending, agency by agency, have reached the high court.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the court’s three liberals to side against the administration.
Four of the court’s conservatives — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — dissented.
“Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned,” Alito wrote, joined by the three others.
The Trump administration has broadly sought to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including by firing employees and freezing its payments to contractors, sparking a wave of lawsuits.
The Supreme Court’s emergency decision keeps in place a lower judge’s order enforcing his directive that the administration maintain foreign aid agreements that existed before Trump took office.
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Take the $2 B dollars out of their paychecks. We as the taxpayers do not want to have our monies wasted. So if they want to give the money to them they need to pay for it.
The 5 members of SCOTUS are NOT friends of America!
So the Biden administration was “throwing gold bricks off the Titanic” to make sure the money wasn’t there for the next administration. It was given out willy-nilly without checking the sources who would be receiving it–simply to get rid of it. $2M to a “green” source provider who popped up the year before and has NO idea of how to run such an agency. I’m sure Stacy Abrahms is going to use that money correctly. If this is what the law backs, then it’s time to change some laws.
Why should our President need to REQUEST anything?
Activist, Leftist judges feel empowered to obstruct Trump at every turn.
Do they have jurisdiction? No!
But Lawfare seems to be the only weapon the Democrats have left.
The story doesn’t mention the judge originating this debacle, but I guarantee he has no sway over the POTUS!
This is one area that the courts need to keep their noses out of. It’s our tax dollars that are being thrown away.
We Taxpayers Say NO to Our Money going to Ukraine, and other countries that hate- dislike America not a Penny to these Countries, No 2 billion to anyone at all, the Courts do not have the right to tell Our President he can’t stop Our Money going to places we don’t want, that includes money to the u.n. W.h.o. fema, the only country right know is Israel no other, and a cut in nato as well time those countries pay there share, we Taxpayers voted Trump In because we are tired of the stealing done by the politicians, bureaucrats, the wide spread fraud by politicians, bureaucrats, it must stop and those doing this must be held accountable Fired , arrested, prosecuted, and assets seized property seized, sold and put in Social Security, Medicare, that includes those hiding behind families, or elites all must be prosecuted, schwab sroros their entire families freands that have been stealing for generations, there are many others, and the Supreme Court needs to Back Our President not Infringe on his Work to help America, and we Americans want Our Country, Our Constitution as Written the complete law of the land and not Distorted, Twisted, Changed, Destroyed, or Ignored by anyone in government state federal, courts, and these judges that try this need removed and their law license security clearance revoked for ever No Exceptions, No Excuses, some even prosecuted