'The Courts Can't and Won't Save Us, Part 805'

"Yesterday brought another example of the extreme difficulty of litigating the constitutional structure of government in court and its inadequacy in reining in Trump’s lawless rampage in a timely fashion."

"You may have seen that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision by Republican appointees Karen Henderson and Gregory Katsas, effectively ratified the Trump administration’s freezing of foreign aid funding. It was a bit more nuanced than that."

"The court ruled that foreign aid groups could not legally challenge the impoundment of the foreign aid funding. Under the law, the court concluded, only the Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress, can challenge the president’s impoundment of funds. To date, the comptroller general, who heads the GAO, hasn’t take that step. To emphasize, the GAO hasn’t even commenced a lawsuit yet."

"The upshot is that after months of litigation, during which United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been dismantled, it’s back to square one to hold Trump to account for his lawlessness. Or to put it another way, the damage has already been done and cannot now or at some future date be rectified in any meaningful way."

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-courts-cant-and-wont-save-us-part-805