The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in rejecting the Trump administration's request to cancel the foreign aid money from USAID.

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,

The Supreme Court refused to let President Donald Trump freeze billions in foreign aid. In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that he was “stunned” that the court would not allow Trump’s order to stand,

Justice Samuel Alito wrote Wednesday that he is “stunned” by the majority’s failure to call out a lower court’s “judicial hubris” in the case considering the Trump administration’s foreign aid spending freeze.

Justice Alito penned a scathing dissent after a majority of the justices refused to let the Trump administration keep billions in foreign aid frozen. The post ‘I am stunned’: Justice Alito slams colleagues’ refusal to let Trump keep billions in foreign aid frozen as rewarding ‘an act of judicial hubris’ first appeared on Law & Crime.

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.

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