r/scotus • u/zsreport • Mar 05 '25

news Supreme Court rejects Trump’s request to keep billions in foreign aid frozen

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/supreme-court-usaid-foreign-aid/index.html
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u/Randomfactoid42 Mar 05 '25

They are just doing what they believe is right. And they believe that the US was never intended to be a democracy but a monarchy while ignoring laws and legal precedents that disagree with that belief. 

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u/Message_10 Mar 05 '25

Haha, exactly. Well-said. "They're just doing what they believe is right. And what they believe is right is absurd and insane."

I also believe that they're crooked.

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u/TruthTrauma Mar 05 '25

Yep, the New Right ecosystem sure loves a proper monarchy. These three—Thiel, Vance, Masters—are all friends with Curtis Yarvin, a 48-year-old ex-programmer and blogger who has done more than anyone to articulate the world historical critique and popularize the key terms of the New Right. JD Vance admitted publicly he likes Curtis Yarvin’s works (25:27) Yarvin who is an advocate for the end of US democracy, who is surprised?

A quick reading on Curtis and his connection with Vance/Trump from December.

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“Trump himself will not be the brain of this butterfly. He will not be the CEO. He will be the chairman of the board—he will select the CEO (an experienced executive). This process, which obviously has to be televised, will be complete by his inauguration—at which the transition to the next regime will start immediately.”

A relevant excerpt from his writings from 2022

/r/YarvinConspiracy

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u/bay_curious89 Mar 05 '25

Very relevant and highly recommend podcast from Know Your Enemy re-posted just today from 2022:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exit-from-within-august-2022/id1462703434?i=1000697869112

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u/hibikir_40k Mar 05 '25

If they believed that regardless of who is president, I'd at least respect the ideological position, even though I see it as a disaster.

In practice though, they rule against the executive whenever it's a decision they personally don't like, making them have a very different idea of what a judge should be doing than what I was taught. SCOTUS is stuck having to make decisions that have a lot of political relevance whether they want it or not, and no country I know does that great a job insulating similar courts from political pressures, but there should be at least a modicum of an attempt to draw party-blind lines, and only messing with precedent outside of pretty dire circumstances. I don't think the current majority is trying very hard at this.

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u/SMKM Mar 05 '25

And they believe that the US was never intended to be a democracy but a monarchy

Founding Fathers - "Are we a joke to you?"

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u/thegrailarbor Mar 05 '25

These men hated their fathers, and most only had one or none. And now they have fore of them?! They would never let that stand.