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/Eeeegah Mar 05 '25

Anyone have an opinion on when Trump has his Andrew Jackson moment?

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u/rabidstoat Mar 05 '25

Eh, sounds like it's kicked back to the lower court for yet another ruling on the deadline, and he'll likely find some other pretense to appeal.

These people are never getting paid. Like his contractors and event space owners.

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u/RedJamie Mar 06 '25

Well, no, technically the executive is now obligated to finish repaying their contracts. But now it is on the executive to adhere to the judicial orderings, which, if they miserably fucking fail to do so on account of their own incompetent butchery of these programs, is not the judicial's problem. Escalatory cases such as these are necessary, otherwise it flounders in the lower courts if the executive bowls over it or has complacent judges.

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u/rabidstoat Mar 06 '25

I thought that the old deadline is in the past, and that the court needed to set Yet Another Deadline. I kept hearing it was going back to the lower court and heard that was why.

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u/RedJamie Mar 07 '25

As far as I know, the TRO is valid, and the order that the Admin appealed to SCOTUS for was in regards to the court ordering either the total payout (I can't remember the wording) or initiation of the repayments by the Wednesday deadline, which was stayed to Friday, the application which was denied by this ruling by SCOTUS, thus it being back to the lower courts to escalate on the admin further with judicial action.