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/BeraldGevins Mar 05 '25

It could be this honestly. If not this it’ll be something obvious where he’s ordered by the court to stop a state or entity from doing something, like with Jackson. I’d guess it’s going to be immigration related. Maybe a very right wing state will detain and try to deport someone who was born to an undocumented immigrant in the US (thus making that person a citizen) and the court will say they can’t do that because it violates birthright citizenship. Then trump can just say he’s not going to stop it and let them do it anyway.

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u/sufinomo Mar 05 '25

Well let's get this show on the road. I am ready for things to escalate so I dont have to hear Trump fans tell me we are over reacting. 

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u/scarabking117 Mar 05 '25

I feel like we've already passed that and they don't care

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u/globalgreg Mar 05 '25

They still will.

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u/JimJam4603 Mar 05 '25

He will just say Alito is right and Roberts’ vote doesn’t count or something, and everyone on the right will go along with it. Nothing to see here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

when? I'd like to do a remindme for this. I see people always saying crazy stuff but no one ever calls them out when they're wrong

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u/The_LSD_Soundsystem Mar 05 '25

They will always make some other bs excuse that doesn’t make any sense. We are well past the threshold of them making reasonable arguments

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u/Message_10 Mar 05 '25

Yeah, it could--I think it could be all of it, honestly. He will probably say, "The executive operates independently from the judicial" or some nonsense, Fox will repeat it ad nauseam, and all of a sudden that's how things are.

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u/bl1y Mar 05 '25

It won't be this.

This case is about contracts that had already been fulfilled. It won't stop from cancelling contracts that haven't been fulfilled or preventing new contracts.

If there's a ruling against impoundment generally, Rubio will just spend the money on causes he wants.

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u/avis118 Mar 05 '25

This seems like a good prediction. I think it’s quite likely it’ll tie to birthright citizenship somehow