Amir Ali: “American President is not a king”

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.

The role for the court is in interpreting the Constitution, and there are two branches here.

The Executive has unilaterally deemed that funds Congress appropriated for foreign aid will not be spent.