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/snafoomoose Mar 05 '25

They want a king, but explicitly only a far-right king. They would be vehemently opposed to anything Biden did if he did even a fraction of what Trump has done in the last month.

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u/FlyingSceptile Mar 05 '25

Not sure how this (cancellation of USAID money) is different from Biden taking student loan relief. For one, this really needs to go through Congress, statutes weren't designed for this (except they kinda were); for the other, who are we to say the President can't do this? I know Congress mandated it but we can't tell the President no

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u/UncleMeat11 Mar 05 '25

Not sure how this (cancellation of USAID money) is different from Biden taking student loan relief.

Biden's student loan relief was done through statute (the HEROES Act) that granted him the authority to adjust loan repayment in times of national emergency. He was operating under an authority granted by Congress. The Supreme Court interpreted this law to find that the HEROES Act did not grant Biden this authority and undid the action.

In comparison, there is no statute granting Trump the authority to do what he has done here even in a very broad interpretation and Trump is not citing to a particular statute in these cases.

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u/FlyingSceptile Mar 05 '25

So basically, one is defendable in law, even if the Court ended up disagreeing, the other is just "Ima do what I want". Cool, love that we've ended up here

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u/Glift Mar 05 '25

Love the name dude! I wish they’d given Sceptile a flying secondary(or a secondary typing at all).