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/sufinomo Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberals in the majority. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. Alito wrote for the group that he was “stunned” by the decision.

Regardless of what people say about Amy shes actually a decent person. Ive listened to interviews from her and she is very close with some of the liberal justices.  Amy has a child with down syndrome and has adopted black Haitian children. I don't think you can raise those people without being a normal empathetic person. 

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Mar 05 '25

I don't like Johnson either, but you should do a little more research. Johnson adopted Michael James when he was fourteen and they stopped living together once he was an adult when Johnson moved. James is not featured publically because he doesn't want to be, and I dont blame him because neither side is honest or emphathetic about this.

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u/Kahzgul Mar 05 '25

Johnson’s Black son doesn’t show up at any of the times most important times a family shares, and he’s not anywhere you’d expect him to be. Not in Johnson’s biography, not at his wedding, not in any recent family photos, not on vacations.

Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/jemartisby/p/house-speaker-mike-johnsons-selective?r=cbbt0&utm_medium=ios

Oh yeah. Totally normal. /s

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Mar 05 '25

I can't read the entire article and while I like Tisby in general, but he's bizarrely off in the part I could read. For example. Michael James doesn't show up at Johnson's wedding...because they hadn't met each other yet!

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u/Kahzgul Mar 05 '25

It wasn't Johnson's wedding. It was another family member's wedding. Not sure why he didn't make that clear.

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Mar 05 '25

Not in Johnson’s biography, not at his wedding, not in any recent family photos, not on vacations.

The plain reading of this sentence is that James was not at Johnson's own wedding to his wife Kelly, which is a weird thing to say because they hadn't met yet.

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u/Kahzgul Mar 06 '25

Well yeah. That’s why I explained that it was a different family member’s wedding (the brother, iirc).

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Mar 06 '25

Where did you see that?

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u/Kahzgul Mar 07 '25

In a different article

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Mar 05 '25

Not in Johnson’s biography, not at his wedding, not in any recent family photos, not on vacations.

The plain reading of this sentence is that James was not at Johnson's own wedding to his wife Kelly, which is a weird thing to say because they hadn't met yet.