A divided Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court’s ruling on foreign aid funding, requiring the USAID to resume payments.
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They're a little late to the massacre. They cut down the tree, fed it "through the woodchipper," scattered the tree-dwellers to the wind, and left the fruit to rot on the ground. Who are they giving the tree back to? And also, what tree?
It should have been unanimous because Trump was acting against the constitution as those funds were appropriated by congress. Very disconcerting and alarming that there were 4 dissenters as that means they are big ruling based on the law.
Corrupt Supreme Court members do not vote with the law. They do what benefits the fascists the most. Seems to be a recurring problem with the GOP fascists too.
I don't think they'll listen.
It's not like laws matter to these people or the DOJ or SCOTUS, or the people. They want power. Power is the only thing that matters to them. It isn't economics, it isn't monetary wealth. Power is there greed.
Also, at what point will a critical mass of engaged citizenry become the blockade in front of the bus that is the corrupt criminal regime that is the Trump admin.
Yeah, not actually what happened. The court, fishy washy as ever merely remanded to a lower court decision. But there is no guarantee that those payments will continue.
Alito seems to believe that the US should not pay for services rendered. The US’s word & signature on contracts mean nothing according to him & the other conservative scum
300,000 plus federal employees fired
15,000 Tesla employees laid off
800,000 Dual U.S/Canadian citizens
????#s of European U.S./ European country dual citizens
Plus figure 10 of their family, friends
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For work already done. FOUR justices think it’s ok to NOT pay for work already done. Now let’s see what they do with a case where Congress budgeted but the work is no done.
Adolf Roberts and Eva Barrett will side with the brownshirts.
Sad to be happy that our highest court agreed to have funds that congress already allocated be paid….why would 4 justices think that’s okay to not pay????
Don't forget to email the Supreme Court and thank them for doing their damn job. Also, a nice lil "shame on you" for the dissent and a brief civics lesson on separation of powers may or may not also be justified.
The dissenters did not like the “hubris” of the lower court making the decision to obey what Congress approved. Not even based on interpretation of law. They just don’t like lower courts deciding anything that they have to go on record and decide against.
Yup, they can cry me a river that someone in the judicial branch is doing their damn job. I notice Alito didn't whine about the Executive branch crying to mom when dad said "no." But again, I am sure it makes perfect sense to a Republican 🙄
Here it is... apparently one court district doesn't have the right to uphold the law against one man... Makes perfect sense to a MAGA, I'm sure. I am grateful that at least a couple of the judges found an ounce of integrity for the law.
Use de-escalation techniques when talking to MAGA victims. When confronted with truth they get defensive and unable to reason. Empathize, avoid trigger words, express concern that the lies are caused by exhaustion, bad actors. They cant reason while escalated and feeling threatened.
How do you suppose those who apposed would have voted had it been Obama or Biden withholding payment for work approved by Congress? And they claim to be federalist who abide in the Constitution? BS Did they provide a reason as to why they dissented?
Trump is notorious for having work done and not paying contractors for the work. He’d tie these little business up in court for years until the company ran out of money & went out of business trying to get paid.
This is exactly what he is currently doing to USAID.
This decision only shows how partisan the SCOTUS actually is. When will we begin to remove the blindfold on the Lady of Justice statues? Cause it ain't blind justice anymore! We need to take our country back and I am starting to feel the courts only holding for so long and our representation folding
He never followed judges orders during his trials so they need to lay down some actual consequences if they want to truly enforce our constitution and make him comply. Take action against those disobeying judges orders and enabling this behavior on his behalf.
Well, sort of, SCOTUS addressed the judge’s required timing of the payments without validating whether tRump has the authority to stop the payments. The result 'should' be the same, i.e. the government has to pay for the already completed work per the lower court's earlier order.
This should have been a 9-0 ruling. The reason it wasn’t is because Alito and Thomas especially are result-oriented hacks. They are like those right wing Christians who cherry pick the parts of the Bible they like, ignore the parts they don’t, and then claim that God always agrees with them.
You gotta do what you gotta do. I just ordered rebel alliance stickers, tRump "I did this" stickers, and 500 little wooden FUCKs. The etsy store I've been ordering those little FUCKs from is temporarily closed. I'm almost out of FUCKs to give and needed them this week.
Yall think John Robers feel some type of way about Trump airing his corruption on live TV? or he just gonna grab a drink with Clarence and Sam like welp, fuck it
Resume payments IF the lower court can figure out how to get them to do it.
I say just arrest the person stopping the payments, Musk. Fine for every day those payments were stopped, fines for every person fired, fine for every day this continues.
This is the same Supreme Court who said the president can’t be prosecuted for any crimes he commits as part of his presidential duties. Musk may not be President, but don’t think for a minute that the DOJ will prosecute him for anything. It’s going to be up to the states.
That's a good point. What they did really through a monkey wrench in and that's what they wanted to do. Not helpful. I wish all humans would either only do helpful things or do nothing at all and get the fu*k out of the way. But those who enjoy doing harm, will continue doing harm.
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Timeline: Trump takes away 1000s of jobs & pay w/o good reason or remorse. Elon laughs about it & continues slashing
Lower Court - orders it all back but Trump ignores & Elon continues w/ wrecking ball & laughs
Supreme Court - We'll think about it for awhile...OK
Americans are getting whiplash.
Why is this not 9-0. Since when can us govt reneg on an obligation for work completed. Is there any doubt that Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh are just puppets of trump/murdoch. What a joke.
What about all of the hundreds of employees that they've got rid of? Who's going to make sure that money is properly transmitted and ends up being used for what it's supposed to be?
This makes it sound as if SCOTUS dealt Trump a significant blow. They did not. It’s an extremely narrow decision, mostly the result of Trump’s lawyer’s flub. It has zero effect on the tens of billions USAID had been distributing, and restarts nothing. This was a bee sting to the oligarchy.
Should have been all 9. Look at the bright side we can put more raw sewage in rivers/streams and make us a country of don’t drink the water. I prefer to deter immigration by making other countries better. This devolving the US into a shit-hole country to make no one want to come here sucks for us.
The thing that concerns me is that none of these comments address the fact that Trump broke the law. Judiciary is a separate part of the government. It is not supposed to be political.
It’s actually surprising (and encouraging) two Justices crossed lines to side with the plaintiffs. This is the second time Barrett has done this recently. Don’t be surprised when #MAGA lose their minds and call to impeach her if this pattern continues. And by “pattern” I mean good unbiased judge.
It is very important to point out (because the news is missing this) that they are not to resume payment per se.... they are required to pay the bills already incurred. It surprises most people I tell that they just didn't pay bills submitted in Dec/Jan for services rendered.
🇺🇸America's Ober KGB Agent has let 🇦🇫Afghanistan run into the knife and now he is doing the same with the 🇺🇦Ukraine ...what has become of this country..if America gives the Gulf a new name..here is the new one for the usa .. „Assholeland“
USAID was paying for the removal of Vietnam-era land mines in Cambodia. When aid was frozen, China stepped in to fund the project. Cambodia is pushed closer to China and further from us. This is an example of the soft power and humanitarian benefits of USAID.
I'll admit I've always been skeptical of claims of the benefits of US "soft power" organizations like USAID. I will also admit that I'm now realizing I was probably being a fool.
The funny thing is that right wingers fell for the propaganda. USAID was promoted as this charitable organization rather than a tool of propaganda, and right wingers told themselves "no, we don't care about any other lives aside from ours" and so they dismantled it.
I worked on a different part of our programming in Cambodia but yeah, basically all of it has a “countering China’s influence” aspect to it. Hun Sen was tight with the Chinese and his son is the PM now and looking to create his own legacy. Opportunity blown.
Cambodia is already in China's pocket . This photo, taken by me, is from Oct 2024, at an aiport in Cambodia. Also, China just built Peru's new port. I was there also in Oc 2024. So China owns Peru too. The landmine stuff is small potatos, unfortunately.
Australia and New Zealand have been watching Chinese influence increasing in the South Pacific Islands and increasing humanitarian and economic aid there. Stopping USAID only helps Chinese influence here too
Sadly, this unfortunately doesn't resolve the issue. Basically, the Supreme Court declined to get involved and sent it back down to the district court to do the following: (1/3)
"Given that the deadline in the challenged order has now passed, and in light of the ongoing preliminary injunction proceedings, the District Court should clarify what obligations the Government must fulfill to ensure compliance with the temporary restraining order... (2/3)
... with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines." This means that Judge Ali has to articulate exactly what he wants the government to do to comply and he will need to reset the deadline. He previously declined to get into the weeds, so we will have to see where this goes. (3/3)
This is a heavy lift for a trial court. The burden could easily get down into amounts owed on indivdual projects - which has to be in the hundred if not thousands.
They are just catering to him. Sure they said he must resume payments, but they gave him no deadline. Now he can ignore the ruling without officially refusing to comply.
I think people are forgetting that other countries and foreign businesses do rate the credit of the US or whether the US pays its bills as well as the country risk of the US.
Those ratings drive decisions of whether to do business with the US. He is already on stage, countries already know he is a deadbeat when it comes to paying on contracts. Why would they enter into agreements or contracts with the US?
Small wins where we can get them. And know. Courage is contagious and Fire catches. Keep holding every MAGA GOP to the fire. Call! Call. Multiple times a day if need be. Max dissent. Ruth ain’t done 💙
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It's not like laws matter to these people or the DOJ or SCOTUS, or the people. They want power. Power is the only thing that matters to them. It isn't economics, it isn't monetary wealth. Power is there greed.
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They've 100% been working up to ignoring the courts more. What's the breaking point?
Anyone notice that yet?
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300,000 plus federal employees fired
15,000 Tesla employees laid off
800,000 Dual U.S/Canadian citizens
????#s of European U.S./ European country dual citizens
Plus figure 10 of their family, friends
That equals 11 million potential Dem Voters
Get names from Dem Legislators
no. say Supreme Court said not to trump. don't minimize it.
let's not be the Dems last night, okay? (some glorious exceptions, but not enough)
Adolf Roberts and Eva Barrett will side with the brownshirts.
The scum are nothing if not predictable.
One tiny step at a time!
Was it Clarence Thomas? Lol
This is exactly what he is currently doing to USAID.
And he will do it to you too.
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I say just arrest the person stopping the payments, Musk. Fine for every day those payments were stopped, fines for every person fired, fine for every day this continues.
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Lower Court - orders it all back but Trump ignores & Elon continues w/ wrecking ball & laughs
Supreme Court - We'll think about it for awhile...OK
Americans are getting whiplash.
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will he obey?
These contractors won’t get paid until another administration is in office.
The line has been drawn.
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That makes him a complete rube.
Also, using Musk allows him to disavow Musk if it all goes south. Which it will
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