Justice Alito slams the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling allowing $2B in foreign aid payments, calling it unchecked judicial power against Trump’s spending freeze.

Justice Alito penned a scathing dissent after a majority of the justices refused to let the Trump administration keep billions in foreign aid frozen. The post ‘I am stunned’: Justice Alito slams colleagues’ refusal to let Trump keep billions in foreign aid frozen as rewarding ‘an act of judicial hubris’ first appeared on Law & Crime.

A divided US Supreme Court dealt a blow to President Donald Trump’s foreign-aid freeze, reinstating a lower court order that requires the quick disbursement of as much as $2 billion owed to contractors for already completed work.

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in rejecting the Trump administration's request to cancel the foreign-aid money from USAID.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote Wednesday that he is “stunned” by the majority’s failure to call out a lower court’s “judicial

The Supreme Court refused to let President Donald Trump freeze billions in foreign aid. In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that he was “stunned” that the court would not allow Trump’s order to stand,