US Supreme Court won’t let Trump withhold payment to foreign aid groups
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On Wednesday, a divided US Supreme Court refused to stop the payment of President Donald Trump’s administration to foreign aid organizations that he had already done for the government as the Republican president is moving forward to draw US humanitarian plans around the world.
In a blow to Trump, in a 5-4 decision, the court upheld the order of US District Judge Amir Ali based in Washington, calling for the administration to issue a grant contractor and grant of grants to the US Agency for International Development and the Department of State for his past work.
Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Amy Konny Barrett joined three liberal members of the court for a majority rejecting the Trump administration’s request. Conservative Justice Samuel Elevito, Claires Thomas, Neil Gorsuich and Brett Kavanov disagreed with the decision.
Ali’s ruling, which is chairing the ongoing legal challenge for Trump’s policy, was actually given to the administration to recognize the fund by February 26, which it has said is about $ 2 billion in total, which may take weeks to pay the full price.
Roberts stopped the order a few hours before the midnight deadline to give the Supreme Court extra time to consider the administration’s formal request to stop Ali’s decision. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 Conservative majority includes three judges appointed by Trump during his first presidential term.
The court on Wednesday did not provide any argument for its signed order. Now, with the original deadline expire, the court directed Ali to “make the responsibilities of the government fulfill the responsibilities to ensure temporary prevention order, according to the feasibility of any compliance timelines.”
Ali’s preliminary order has been heard on Thursday at the request of the plaintiffs for the Prohibition. The judge currently has a temporary prevention order that continues until March 10.
Elevito, in a disagreement opinion in which three accomplices joined the conservatives, expressed disappointment over the court’s decision.
“Does a District Court judge, whose jurisdiction lacks jurisdiction, has the power to force the United States government to pay 2 billion taxpayers (and probably lose forever)? The answer to this question should be a great ‘no’, but the majority of this court seems to be otherwise. “I’m stunned.”
The Republican president, following which he called the “America First” agenda, ordered a 90 -day break on all foreign aid on January 20. This order, and as a result, stopwork orders have stopped USAID operations around the world, and has endangered life -saving and provision of medical aid, which has put global humanitarian efforts into chaos.
Rescue organizations have accused Trump of exceeding his authority under the federal law and the US Constitution, to effectively abolish an independent federal agency and cancel the costs by Congress.
Plaintiffs include the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Alliance, Journalism Development Network, International Development Company DAI Global and Refugee Aid Organization Hesse.
Acting lawyer General Sarah Harris filed a March 3 Supreme Court, saying that blocking Ali’s order was “guaranteed to stop the restoration of a new, short fused deadline, which would illegally command the federal payment process.”
Harris argued that the judicial limit was exceeded as per the judge’s order and he gave the administration very little time to check the invoice to “ensure the justification for all payments.” Lawyers representing the administration filed a separate separate on February 26, saying that full payments may take weeks.
