Justice Samuel Alito issued a scathing dissent Wednesday after the Supreme Court declined to block a lower court’s order forcing the Trump administration to pay $2 billion in foreign aid immediately,

Constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday evening that Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling in a case involving an effort to freeze $2 billion in foreign aid payments is right “on the merits.

Justice Samuel Alito penned a scathing dissent to the Supreme Court's decision ending a temporary pause on foreign aid payments through the U.S. Agency for International Development.

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court issued its first decision in Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s escalating war on government agencies and Congress’ power of the purse. The result: the court is one justice shy of letting Trump and Musk do whatever they want—at least for now.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a California police officer denied qualified immunity in a civil rights case. Justice Samuel Alito was not pleased and said in a dissent Monday that the Court should have reviewed the case to correct a “serious misstep” in the lower court’s analysis.

Dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said the court ultimately will need to intervene on a controversial free speech issue at universities across the country.

Justice Alito, joined by three colleagues on the bench, decries ‘a most unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris.’

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Indiana University’s use of a “bias response team,” prompting a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas, who argued the case was an important opportunity to resolve a split among federal courts over whether such programs infringe on student free speech rights.