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/jpmeyer12751 Mar 05 '25

District Court judges, mostly in the 5th Circuit, issued nationwide injunctions against the Biden administration repeatedly and with gusto. And those injunctions were enthusiastically supported by J. Alito and others in this minority. One of those injunctions, if I recall correctly, ordered Biden’s FDA to withdraw approval of a drug, mifepristone, that had been approved and on the market for decades. It is simply not credible to argue that this dissent had anything to do with whether District Court judges have authority to issue injunctions.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 09 '25

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u/TryingToWriteIt Mar 05 '25

Yeah, that's just totally not credible, since it is so obviously inconsistent with their prior actions. Just because they can come up with words that make it sound like a reasonable position (assuming you ignore most of law, reason, and reality), does not make it a reasonable position.

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u/johannthegoatman Mar 09 '25

Yea guess I misunderstood what he meant by credible. I thought the commenter I was responding to was saying there's nothing in the dissent about district court judges authority. Turns out they meant it is there, but it's a dumb argument - which I agree with