Supreme Court Delivers Crushing Blow To Donald Trump

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Donald Trump’s legal defeats keep piling up, but a decision this week was especially bruising because it came from the ultra-conservative US Supreme Court. The high court decided that they would NOT allow the Trump administration to continue to freeze the foreign aid that Trump froze at the start of his term. There is one catch to this, however: The court didn’t put a timeline on when the aid had to be distributed, creating a gray area that could allow Trump to slow walk the money and aid. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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One of the very first horrible things that Donald Trump did upon returning to office was immediately getting rid of U-S-A-I-D, right? The USAID program, if you will. We're freezing all the funding. We're not gonna send all this money around the planet to help everybody else. We're America first, even though the money being spent on those other countries did in fact benefit the United States. But, you know, that's beside the point. That takes a deeper level of understanding of how the world works, which Trump does not have. So they immediately froze the funding, and that was immediately challenged in court and Trump immediately lost. And the lower courts said you have to unfreeze the funding and keep doing the things that are supposed to be happening until the court case re reaches a verdict, which could be years. So they appealed that and the appellate court said, Nope, gotta unfreeze the funding. This week Donald Trump was able to get it in front of the Supreme Court in an emergency hearing and in a five to four decision, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request to keep the funding freeze in place. Effectively, that five four decision from the Supreme Court says you have to release the funding. You cannot keep it frozen as this court case proceeds through the lower courts.

So Trump's own Supreme Court for the second time in 45 days smacked him down. That is not something I thought that we would see in this administration. So that gives me a little bit of hope, but just a little bit. I would probably have more hope if the Supreme Court had actually, you know, put a timeline on when the funding has to be released. See, the original timeline from the lower court was Wednesday the fifth, which is now in the past. And the Supreme Court did not say, yes, you have to start releasing it again. By the fifth, they just said you have to start releasing it. So it's a bit of a legal gray area because the Supreme Court did not reaffirm the date from the lower court. That date is not necessarily enforceable. And if they do try to reinforce the date, that could then be challenged upon appeal, and appeal back up to the Supreme Court, creating a whole new wrinkle in the saga for Donald Trump. But in the meantime,

He is supposed to release the funding, and if they do not act in accordance with the lower court, the lower court could hold them in contempt, which won't matter because Trump would pardon anybody involved, but they could take these actions. All in all, Trump is not having a good time with courts across this country. In fact, he is losing pretty much every single time. The only victory they have so far is when the judge, uh, in a preliminary ruling said, no, I'm not gonna immediately reinstate the Associated press into the press pool. Uh, we're gonna let it go to trial. Um, so it's a victory, but it's not really a victory. The rest of 'em have been resounding defeats even at the Supreme Court and not much to be hopeful about these days. And that's not even a huge amount of hope. But they did give us a little, and we gotta take what we can get at this point.