Posted on 09/09/2025 1:33:03 PM PDT by CFW
The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused a court order requiring President Donald Trump to distribute roughly $4 billion in foreign aid that he has tried to cancel through a "pocket rescission," Reuters reported.
The order follows a lower court determining that Trump lacked the authority to withhold funding that Congress allocated. The 2nd Circuit on Friday upheld the district court order from Judge Amir Ali finding that Trump needed congressional authority to withhold the funds.
“To be clear, no one disputes that defendants have significant discretion in how to spend the funds at issue, and the court is not directing defendants to make payments to any particular recipients,” the Biden-appointed Ali wrote. “But defendants do not have any discretion as to whether to spend the funds.”
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Also today, SCOTUS granted cert in the tariff cases.
Order here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/090925zr1_hejm.pdf
Trump already spent it. He gave it to Israel to take out Hamas in Qatar
Wondering how much dinero Donks have spent for attorneys fees on losing cases ?
“...no one disputes that defendants have
significant discretion in how to spend the funds...”
“...But defendants do not have any discretion
as to whether to spend the funds...”
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I do not understand that.
“”””“To be clear, no one disputes that defendants have significant discretion in how to spend the funds at issue, and the court is not directing defendants to make payments to any particular recipients,”””””””””””””””
So President Trump MUST spend the money...........on whatever he wants.
It is a poorly written article. I gave up on it.
The best I can determine is the federal judge ruled that it mattered not how the funds were spent, as long as they were spent.
Government work, I guess.
It's going to be death by a thousand cuts.
The problem is the headline and all that follows it.
Trump just keeps winning at SCOTUS!
Judge ‘amir ali”! Got it. 🤔🙄
SCOTUS says no to all that, and that’s what counts.
No creep called Ali is going to control how POTUS spends tax payer dollars.
“Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to freeze billions in foreign aid payments for now, putting on hold a lower court ruling that required officials to spend $4 billion of that money by the end of the month.
Roberts, who handles emergency appeals from federal courts in Washington, DC, issued what’s known as an administrative stay – a temporary order intended to give the justices more time to review the case.
The order does not necessarily indicate how the court will ultimately resolve the appeal, though it could make it harder for the groups that sued over the cuts to recover the money approved by Congress.
Roberts ordered the groups challenging the move to respond to the Trump administration by Friday afternoon.
At issue is $4 billion in foreign aid, including for global health and HIV programs, that was approved by Congress but that President Donald Trump has deemed wasteful. Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office attempting to curtail foreign aid spending, and his administration has for months been fighting lower court orders that blocked his effort.
The spending of foreign aid is a “joint enterprise between our two political branches,” US District Judge Amir Ali wrote in a March opinion that mostly sided against Trump.
But in this case, Ali wrote, “the executive not only claims his constitutional authority to determine how to spend appropriated funds, but usurps Congress’s exclusive authority to dictate whether the funds should be spent in the first place.”
No it won’t.
SCOTUS is what counts.
And Trump keeps winning at SCOTUS.
The limiting factor is in the number of cases SCOTUS can hear vs. the number of rulings pissant lower court judges can issue.
Well SCOTUS has now been issuing sweeping rulings that overturn tranches of district court rulings.
A Muslim Canadian who only recently became a US citizen (and STILL has Canadian citizenship by way of his Egyptian/Canadian parents).
His nomination in the senate was barely passed with a KumAllah Harris tie-breaker vote.
This Muslim freak (no he is not a real American or even a real Canadian) belongs with his sand maggot brethren in the African Sahara desert. /spit
Perhaps the admnistration could cut me a $4 billion check. I promise I would do less damage than most recipients.
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