Defendants have yet to offer any explanation, let alone one supported by the record, for why a blanket suspension setting off a shockwave and upending reliance interests for thousands of businesses and organizations around the country was a rational precursor to reviewing programs.
Judge Ali ruled against Trump's foreign aid freeze, citing lack of justification.
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The role for the court is in interpreting the Constitution, and there are two branches here.
The constitutional power over whether to spend foreign aid is not the President’s own—and it is Congress’s own.
Defendants have erected numerous new barriers to compliance at every turn. This conduct cannot be explained as anything other than willful defiance of the Court’s orders.