BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration emergency request to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid [View all]
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 purseâ€.
— 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.
— Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) 2025-09-26T21:09:40.303Z
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...
In the process, the justices reward bad behavior and lawlessness:
— Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) 2025-09-26T21:19:12.010Z
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.
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