Amir Ali: “American President is not a king”

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

The constitutional power over whether to spend foreign aid is not the President’s own—and it is Congress’s own.

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

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…