Last night, the U.S. Supreme Court paused a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to release $2 billion in frozen USAID funds and handed Trump his first legal victory in his effort to consolidate power.
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John Roberts staff if you are reading posts about him please tell him his legacy will be how he was a puppet and is responsible for the downfall of this country. Grow some cojones and tell him America really is disgusted with his "Wimpy" behavior - he is not a Popeye.
What Trump and his band of sociopaths have done to USAID is cruel and inhumane on an unbearable level. It is a massacre of the most vulnerable people in our world. This is pure evil, and by pausing the restoration of funding, the MAGA Supreme Court is complicit.
They are probably afraid of losing their jobs if they oppose him too much. He will probably disband them anyway, if he becomes the dictator that he longs to be. When we stop him and replace the House and Senate in the midterms, then maybe a revision of SCOTUS may be in order.
We need the equivalent of the Doomsday Clock to track our proximity to the destruction of American democracy and transformation into a full blown dictatorship.
I don't consider a pause a win. Let's see if they force him to pay. Not paying is a win for him. But it's illegal. The funds were approved by congress. The scotus should have no say on the purse.
Damn it! I don't think they need time to research what is going on!!!! They know!! We'll find out at noon tomorrow if they'll side with the overthrow of democracy.
Yep, this is great news. Hopefully but doubtfully FOTUS is bright enough now to understand it is not its say so of what is an official action. The SCOTUS has that pleasure.
Bought and paid for. How long to cut a check to pay your bill? This is bull shit. We need a nation wide strike. Shut it all down. Blow it up. They want a war. Let give it to them and make a real third party in the process. The people have no party.
More like OBESE LYING FELON POS FRAUDSTER ANTI-AMERICAN TRAITOR #TRUMP gets 1st CORRUPT FAVORABLE RULING FROM EQUALLY CORRUPT UNETHICAL & CRIMINAL #SCOTUS!! John Roberts is a DISGUSTING violator of DEMOCRACY RULEOFLAW CONSTITUTION his OATH INTEGRITY CHARACTER & DUTY TO SERVE A HIGHER CALLING!🖕THEM!!
We know of three who have definitely lined their pockets with gifts and bribes and are getting up there in years. They would be delighted to retire in comfort and let the rest of us suffer for it.
If they finish the job of suspending the Constitution, there won't be a SCOTUS or POTUS or Congress, all of which are created by the Constitution & exist because the Constitution is still alive. If the Constitution became a dead letter, the offices would only exist for those who would reinstate it.
Not necessarily a victory (yet). Just a pause. This is not an uncommon thing to do, to allow time to review the case, if I understand correctly. Don't trust SCOTUS as far as I could throw them, obviously, and we'll see what happens, but calling it a victory is unnecessarily disheartening.
It's just the one supreme court justice, not SCOTUS, and it's temporary until SCOTUS hears the case. But it is very concerning and a setback for the plaintiffs and everyone who will be affected in the meantime.
It's the follow-up order to pay by a deadline that Roberts was responding to, not the TRO itself. It's a technical game but it doesn't make TROs generally appealable.
They are arguing very specifically that the deadline on the new order, which is not a TRO, was too short to comply with. It's exactly the sort of distinction that lawyers are famous for.
They are babying Trump, by always take his cases where he is trying to get his way. Also this is a deep disrespect to the other federal judges' orders.
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We are 2 steps away from losing the courts
Wonder how the "Stop overreacting, just vote harder"crew are holding up these days?
They no longer care about the law, the people, or the US Constitution.
Shameful.
left is a kingdom of ashes , long live the king
IMPEACH FOTUS.
Reform SCOTUS!
That's a wonderful message for Founding Fathers.
The fact that Roberts got rid of it means the RCP mean nothing if they get in the way of Trump's policies.
This means you can not comply with a TRO, get ordered by a judge to comply or else contempt, and then appeal that.
That means you CAN appeal a TRO.
It's sad that you are playing interference for Roberts here.