BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration emergency request to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump administration emergency request to withhold billion in foreign aid that had been appropriated by Congress. The vote is 6-3

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T20:44:00.198Z

Justice Kagan writes a dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson. The majority has “enabled the presidential usurpation of Congress‘s power of the purse”.

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T20:47:09.543Z

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T20:49:10.129Z

Say goodbye to the separation of powers.

Top line: The Supreme Court grabs power from Congress, which decides what to do with money that belongs to all of us, and hands it to Donald Trump. Forever.

(This money will never reach its intended recipients.)

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

— Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) 2025-09-26T21:09:40.303Z

In the process, the justices reward bad behavior and lawlessness:

Notice how Justice Kagan carefully explains how the Trump administration, procedurally and otherwise, is clawing back money already appropriated.

Footnotes 2 and 3 also point out how the government is making up arguments on the fly.

— Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) 2025-09-26T21:19:12.010Z