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Four conservatives Supreme Court Judges He wrote an abrasing dissent on Wednesday after the majority of the court rejected the Trump administration request to continue a temporary freezing in foreign aid payments.
Judge Samuel Alito excorated the majority of the Superior Court for allowing a judge of the lower court to determine on his own the schedule for the Trump administration to pay almost $ 2 million in payments for previously completed foreign aid projects, an order that called “too extreme.”
In an eight -page scathing dissent, Alito described the decision as an “unfortunate false step” and one said “reward an act of judicial arrogance” by the judge of the lower court, the American district judge Amir Ali.
Scotus Rules on almost $ 2 billion in frozen USAID payments
Susan Schorr, from DC, has an anti -lobic musk sign and an American flag in protest in front of the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on February 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Pete Kiehart for Washington Post through Getty Images)
“A judge of the District court who probably lacks jurisdiction has power without control to force the United States government to pay (and probably losing forever) 2 billion dollars of taxpayers? The answer to that question should be an” not “emphatic, but most of this court apparently thinks otherwise,” Alito wrote.
“I’m stunned.”
He joined him in the dissent for Judges Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
While Alito and the other dissident judges recognized on Wednesday that the plaintiffs raised “serious concerns about the non -payment” for their complete work, they argued that the reimbursement order and the time frame of Judge Ali were “too extreme”, since he gave the administration just two weeks to comply.
The judges of the Supreme Court are seen attending Trump’s presidential inauguration in Washington, DC (Ricky Carioti /The Washington Post through Getty)
“The District Court has made clear its frustration with the Government, and the respondents raise serious concerns about the non -payment of the completed work,” they said in their dissent. “But ordered relief is simply an too extreme answer.”
The decision of the Supreme Court 5-4 refers to the case to the Federal Court of DC, and the American district judge Amir Ali, to highlight the details of what must be paid and when.
The worker of the United States retired agency for international development Julie Hanson Swanson, on the left, joins the supporters of USAID workers outside the office of the USAID Humanitarian Affairs Office in Washington, on Friday, February 21, 2025. (Manuel Balce Cenet)
In question in the case it was the speed with which the Trump administration needed to pay the almost $ 2 billion owed to help groups and contractors for completed projects financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at a time when the Administration has issued a general freezing over all foreign expenses in the name of the “efficiency” of the government and the elimination of waste.
The funds had been frozen as part of the administration block throughout foreign aid, which led international groups and contractors to file a lawsuit last month, which led Trump administration to present an emergency appeal before the Supreme Court.
The president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, intervened, agreed to stop the timeline to allow the full court to consider the case.
The United States general lawyer, Sarah Harris, argued that although the claimants were probably “legitimate”, the time established by the judge of the lower court, the American district judge Amir Ali, was “impossible.” and “not logistics or technically feasible.”
Judge Ali, on the other hand, quickly moved on Wednesday to TKAE’s action in the case of unpaid foreign aid, establishing a new judicial hearing on Thursday afternoon to consider the matter.
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In a thorough order, the court said that both parties of both parties should be prepared to discuss a proposed schedule for the Trump administration to comply with the pending payments.
Judge Alito seemed to support that statement in the minority dissent on Wednesday.
Jake Gibson of Fox News contributed to this report.