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angrystaffer.bsky.social • 14 hours ago

SCOTUS goes woke! 😉

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has *upheld* a lower court's order forcing USAID/State to immediately pay ~$2 billion owed to contractors for work they've alreayd performed.

Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch/Kavanaugh dissent. t.co/k86ttz6Wdt

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roguishjrt.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The only time Trump has had to actually pay for work done

grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social•11 hours ago

"...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."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/supreme-court-usaid-foreign-aid/index.html

dirtyblondesinger.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Give it up for Roberts and the ladies...

redpoppy2.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The fact that 4 of them voted to not pay contractors for work already done shows how maga they are

johnrage.bsky.social•9 hours ago

So I find this moment to be the most interesting. The court has ordered him to restore payments. Will he? I think we've arrived at the moment all of us have been wondering about. But only one of two steps. Will congress have the will to do something as well? So much turns on this moment now.

horn-slack.bsky.social•14 hours ago

But not paying bills is a Trump core tenet.

healingin2025.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Brett Kavanaugh, too.

horn-slack.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Oh, somebody paid for him.

foxhallmanor.bsky.social•14 hours ago

5-4, Jesus ...

maydaymovementusa.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Will he obey?

mysunshineyday.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Woohoo! Maybe there's hope. What do you think about this? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/trump-blackrock-panama-canal-port-deal.html

asadiablo.me•14 hours ago

But what are they going to do to ENFORCE that decision? Are they going to lock up the people who are hands-on-devices required to make that happen? Are they going to file injunctions against the fake agency prohibiting their access? Are they going to actually DO anything?

tyler-healthcare.bsky.social•10 hours ago

No, they can only issue Marshall’s to enforce it but Marshall’s oversight is under the DOJ so trump’s got them under his thumb with Pam Bondi

jerbrad28.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Here’s the brilliance of Scalito’s dissent:

“Time does not allow a lengthy discussion of the legal issues presented by this case…”

jaylk.bsky.social•13 hours ago

They held the opinion until today because the didn't want to upset Dear Leader before his speech.

drosenbacher.bsky.social•14 hours ago

djtakespictures.bsky.social•14 hours ago

How the FUCK could 4 Supreme Court white males dissent on paying bills that a fucking signed contract states will be paid? If rules don’t matter the why do we need SC at all?

islalola.bsky.social•14 hours ago

That last part.

takethatearth.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Apparently woke means fulfill your obligations?

Something Trump does not do.

So it makes sense that he's anti woke.

livesantacruz.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Woke to pay your bills that is where we are.

booksrbetter.bsky.social•14 hours ago

joan3dogmom.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Who is surprised that the miserable skidmark didn’t want to pay contractors for work they’d already done?

itebowchi.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Hmm, interesting that it’s only the aggrieved, entitled, white (and white wannabe) justices who dissented.

lulubadger.bsky.social•14 hours ago

That dissent tho…the lack of Alito’s self awareness in declaring another court acted with, “judicial hubris”…

raveninak.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Being woke is the new kool.

bronxdeputy.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I wonder how the 4 dissenters would feel about their funders failing to pay all their vacation junket expenses that they promised. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/federal-fallout/supreme-court-rejects-trump-administration-request-wont-block-order-to-pay-2b-in-foreign-aid-usaid-john-roberts-judge-ali-alit-state-department/65-947a866d-f9fd-44cc-bafd-58622da1dfd8

msmsfit2022.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I can't believe SCOTUS actually had it in them to do something ethical. Who knew?

pnwntve.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Well 5-4 isn't very hopeful for the Rule of Law but better than the opposite I guess.

makkie5.bsky.social•14 hours ago

YES.

liberals4liberty.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Alito says he's 'stunned' the Supreme Court ruled against Trump over USAID's funding

Hey Alito: I am not stunned that you are an ideological ass.

ragekitty.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Maybe he needs a bigger flag.

healingin2025.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’s not funding. It’s paying for work that has already been done. It’s the US government not stiffing contractors.

latinbishop.bsky.social•14 hours ago

5-4 spells trouble

bonfire25.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I'm REALLY hoping the 4 SCOTUS judges at Trump's speech last night REALLY get now how fucking dangerous he is and these rulings keep going this way.

badtoss.bsky.social•13 hours ago

A surprise from Justice Barrett truly.

tonymcfaddenwrites.bsky.social•9 hours ago

And if Trusk says no?

martinauger.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Isn't this what The Dear Leader does with contractors in his private business ?

missyandtillycorgi.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The dissenters are just eyeroll worthy at this point.

mybookstand.bsky.social•6 hours ago

https://www.alternet.org/maga-trump-supreme-court/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mar.5.2025_9.38pm

stealthgirl21.bsky.social•14 hours ago

texastwinkie.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I'm adding them to my "do not resuscitate" list, in case it's ever on me. Also I'm gonna look for voodoo dolls in little black robes. Or make them. I'm so over all this shit.

andresgowan.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Of course those 4 dissent. They are political hacks.

anneinsantafe.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Nice to see that Amy Conehead Barrett votes the correct way now and then. She's going to get a reputation for being a kind of a maverick.

hobohemia.bsky.social•14 hours ago

"SCOTUS says America must pay for work it has contracted." There. Fixed it.

rocketdog3.bsky.social•just now

Four of them would have let him away with it. Scary.

realdoublea.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This is great news in the short run, but Krasnov (whether true or not, I like calling him this) is going to run it all into the ground anyway.

debaurah.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It's so sad that we are at a point where we are celebrating what should be an easy win.

jerseyrules.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Lol. Nothing is more antitrump than paying your debts.

starfyre59.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I think the vote was 5 to 4. Glad we won but think 4 of them went along with him

mjm314.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The ugly ones.

mjwaldow.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Well, at least 5 of them did lol.

rugrat907.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The four dissenters apparently have never read the Constitution.

mastermdogg2024.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Sure they have. They’ve read it and wipe their asses with it every night.

healingin2025.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Well, we know Kavanaugh is not in favor of paying debts owed.

j0hnnytightlips.bsky.social•14 hours ago

They have. They just don’t care about it

barrybista.bsky.social•13 hours ago

SCOTUS merely said they wouldn’t intervene while the case is progressing.

They haven’t ruled on the power over the executive branch granted to POTUS by article 2 yet.

That won’t happen until this case is final and has been appealed.

michaelkw.bsky.social•14 hours ago

4 justices suck the orange dick harder.

nancysknotsandlace.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Something awful is coming….

jennybing53.bsky.social•9 hours ago

But new work? Is that covered too?

mizerable2025.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Wow alito Thomas gorsuch and kav all dissent . Like really...

rosevillecindy.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Four justices thought it was appropriate to withhold funding for services already performed. Who do they think they are? Trump?

n0s0ul.bsky.social•4 hours ago

BARELY

healingin2025.bsky.social•6 hours ago

How the hell do you dissent to having someone pay a bill.

searchingfor.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Trump’s the expert in such things. You can tell who his toadies are.

z3maira.bsky.social•12 hours ago

"Woke" to pay for commitments.

jlusunshine.bsky.social•14 hours ago

F@ckin’ Gorsuch. I attended a speech of his once where he warned of increasing executive power as a threat to democracy. Clearly, he only meant it was a threat if it is *Black Executive* power.

fpoons.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I'll take the win, but Jesus, a razor-thin 5-4 decision on the super complicated Constitutional question of "paying the bill for services already rendered".