Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump administration to spend $2 billion in frozen foreign aid, a goal that the government has claimed it is unable to meet.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump administration to spend $2 billion in frozen foreign aid, a goal that the government has claimed it is unable to meet.

    • assaultpotato
      3·
      14 days ago

      Roberts’ order does not resolve the underlying questions raised by the case. Rather, it imposed what’s known as an “administrative stay” to give the court a few days to review written arguments in the case. Roberts is the justice designated to handle emergency cases from the federal appeals court in Washington, DC.

      I mean, not yet - we’ll see what happens during the discussion of the merits of the case.

      • shoulderoforion@fedia.ioOPM
        5·
        14 days ago

        the merits were determined enough for the judge in the lower fucking court to order the government to release the funding, lives, real human life depends on this foreign aid, real live human beings are suffering and dying without it, and the supreme court just told the government they can stretch this out as long as they want to with no repercussions, it’s also told all the other lower courts that any ideas about holding the executive in contempt will be stayed as well. this is the final nail. if you think i’m exaggerating, watch this space. we are done up like a kipper. only disease, famine, suffering and death come next.

        • assaultpotato
          3·
          14 days ago

          For the record I do agree the US is cooked in an unrecoverable way. I’m quite confident the courts won’t be able to back up any orders they do give out. I’m just not sure a temporary pause for the court to be briefed is that point.

          I’ll be very interested in seeing what comes of this in the next few days.