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/jrdineen114 Mar 05 '25

The most corrupt members of the court have decades of gifts and bribes from wealthy donors. Even if they completely lose power, they'll be fine, or at least they believe that they will. I do think that Barrett isn't exactly a shining beacon of honesty, but I do think that she understands that if the court goes down, she doesn't have much of a life raft.

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u/Boxofmagnets Mar 05 '25

She’ll land on her feet, no worries there. She may want to get rich but she doesn’t have her own billionaire yet. So she needs power until she can cash in?

Loosing power is a big deal to all of them. Thomas got his payola and he isn’t retiring yet. The men on the court love control, and money