Supreme Court smacks Trump down on foreign aid.

[Concerned American]

Congress approved the funds. The President cannot trample over the Constitution on a whim.

No Trumpers, Trump is not a dictator.

Hypocrite. Where was this concern when Joe Biden mandated EVs?

 

[martybegan]

SCOTUS says that any vagueness in the law is up to the judiciary to decide on. No more deference.

SCOTUS said that with regards to the TRO the district judge has to be specific on what has to be paid out.

There was nothing in the order on the merits of the case itself.

 

[pknopp]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a831_3135.pdf



The actual words of the opinion. From the Court itself. Read the ******* highlighted part.

I'll simply note how you only partially bolded the statement. Read it all and it says what I've been saying.

 

[martybegan]

I'll simply note how you only partially bolded the statement. Read it all and it says what I've been saying.

It ALSO says that. You are the one ignoring the first part.

What does the part I highlighted say?

 

[whitehall]

Only a "slap down" to the angry media. In effect the Court let Trump's order stand.

 

[martybegan]

Only a "slap down" to the angry media. In effect the Court let Trump's order stand.

It also let the TRO stand, but told the District court they have to be far more specific on what to pay out under the TRO.

This is a notice to ALL District judges that their TRO's have to be FAR more specific than saying "don't do that" or "keep doing that"

 

[pknopp]

It ALSO says that. You are the one ignoring the first part.

What does the part I highlighted say?

The first part is explaining the second part. Again, the court already ruled that Trump can't stop the money.

 

[shockedcanadian]

WOW.

America must now give the world money. We don't care about your Gdamn elections.

Can America just toss me a cool mill? Just one million please? It's not illegal and the S.C will tell you to send it even if it collapses your economy and/or is corruption?

MSN

A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen.


However, the court did not immediately say when the money must be released, allowing the White House to continue to dispute the issue in lower courts.



The ruling was 5-4.


The order was unsigned but four conservative justices dissented – Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. That put five justices in the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.


The majority noted that given a court-ordered deadline to spend the money last week had already passed, the lower courts should “clarify what obligations the government must fulfil to ensure compliance with the temporary restraining order.”


In a strongly worded dissent, Alito wrote that he was “stunned” by the court’s decision to permit the lower-court judge to order the administration to unfreeze the foreign aid at issue in the case.

 

[martybegan]

The first part is explaining the second part. Again, the court already ruled that Trump can't stop the money.

No the first part is saying "tell the admin which ones to pay" the second part says give them time to do it.

The TRO is only applicable to those payments that denying would inflict irreparable harm to those supposed to be paid.

The first part is the first part.

Why can't you just admit you are partially wrong on this? Your Aspergers prevents you from doing so?

 

[Anathema]

Time to start pushing for some more “resignations” from the court so they can be replaced by competent justices.

Mr Roberts needs a wake-up call.

 

[pknopp]

No the first part is saying "tell the admin which ones to pay" the second part says give them time to do it.

The court already did that. All of it.

 

[martybegan]

The court already did that. All of it.

No they didn't. they just issued a blanket TRO saying "do all of this right now" and the SC said "be specific, and give a reasonable timeline for it.

Do you agree the case hasn't been argued yet?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

That is great news for the thieves who are looting the paychecks of Americans

 

[pknopp]

No they didn't. they just issued a blanket TRO saying "do all of this right now" and the SC said "be specific, and give a reasonable timeline for it.

Do you agree the case hasn't been argued yet?

You can't agree with me any more if you tried.

 

[ColonelAngus]

But Barrett equals Nazi.

 

[martybegan]

You can't agree with me any more if you tried.

You are saying the admin has to pay everyone right away. the order doesn't say that. The order says the district judge has to give specific directions on who is paid out.

Are you ******* retarded?

Again, has the case been decided or even tried on the merits yet?

 

[WEATHER53]

Lib loons chirping this is a disaster for Trump are not operating from facts and the written word as usual

 

[my2¢]

I guess Trump lawyers weren't as smart as those of the organizations that wanted payment for work they performed under government agreement.

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote rejected the Trump administration’s request to lift a lower-court order requiring the government to unfreeze over $1.5 billion in foreign aid owed to nonprofits and government partners for their humanitarian efforts with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

In a motion to SCOTUS, the Trump administration didn’t argue that the president can impound funds, nor did it argue the foreign funding freeze was legal. Instead, it asked SCOTUS to vacate Ali’s order because it was too broad and applied to contracts given to organizations that were not included in the lawsuit.

SCOTUS Denies Trump’s Request to Lift Order Requiring Release of $1.5 Billion in Foreign Aid

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

 

[konradv]

SCOTUS by a 5-4 count has ordered USAID funds be dispersed until the settlement of all suits.
I’m happy to see that two of the conservative side agree with following the rule of law.

Supreme Court rules on nearly $2 billion in USAID payments paused by Trump | Fox News

 

[1srelluc]

Yep. So now some Biden appointed district judge has to say who to pay, why it needs to be paid (This is a TRO remember, not a judgement) and give the Trump admin reasonable time to comply.

As this is a TRO the District judge will also have to show the holding of the funds will cause serious irreparable damage to the people being paid.

Yep, and if those people happen to be dem surrogates it will come out and the American people will see where their money is being forced by a Biden judge to be paid out too.

This is just another example of where the dems should have been careful what they wished for.

And who knows, if the payment are found to be going to bogus .orgs the DOJ may get involved and follow the money trail right back to the DNC or people like Stacy Abrams..