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In It to Win It

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Fri Sep 26, 2025, 05:44 PM Sep 26

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration emergency request to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration emergency request to withhold billion in foreign aid that had been appropriated by Congress. The vote is 6-3

Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T20:44:00.198Z

Justice Kagan writes a dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson. The majority has “enabled the presidential usurpation of Congress‘s power of the purse”.

Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T20:47:09.543Z

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T20:49:10.129Z

Say goodbye to the separation of powers.

Top line: The Supreme Court grabs power from Congress, which decides what to do with money that belongs to all of us, and hands it to Donald Trump. Forever.

(This money will never reach its intended recipients.)

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) 2025-09-26T21:09:40.303Z

In the process, the justices reward bad behavior and lawlessness:

Notice how Justice Kagan carefully explains how the Trump administration, procedurally and otherwise, is clawing back money already appropriated.

Footnotes 2 and 3 also point out how the government is making up arguments on the fly.

Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) 2025-09-26T21:19:12.010Z
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BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration emergency request to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid (Original Post) In It to Win It Sep 26 OP
Of course they did senseandsensibility Sep 26 #1
Vicious Court. You have to be vicious to take aid from those who have nothing when applegrove Sep 26 #2
They all take bribes, of course they vote for this. They are anything but justices, just common criminals Blues Heron Sep 26 #3
More and more will die. yellow dahlia Sep 26 #4
Im sure Trump already stole that money Johonny Sep 26 #5
Ask your Congress person why they're in DC since the Congress has no power. sinkingfeeling Sep 26 #6
Is it a final or another temporary/pending thing? UTUSN Sep 26 #7
On paper, it's temporary. However, the funding expires in a few days. In It to Win It Sep 26 #8
Ty UTUSN Sep 26 #9

applegrove

(128,789 posts)
2. Vicious Court. You have to be vicious to take aid from those who have nothing when
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 05:51 PM
Sep 26

you are so overwhelmingly wealthy.

Blues Heron

(7,843 posts)
3. They all take bribes, of course they vote for this. They are anything but justices, just common criminals
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:17 PM
Sep 26

Much like trump himself, an ignorant, uneducated, immoral lowlife.

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