The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s order forcing USAID/State to immediately pay ~ $2 billion owed to contractors for work they’ve already performed.

  • arotrios@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    43·
    3 days ago

    In related news, Alito & team should be impeached for this blatantly unconstitutional dissent:

    JUSTICE ALITO , with whom JUSTICE THOMAS, JUSTICE GORSUCH , and JUSTICE KAVANAUGH join, dissenting from the denial of the application to vacate order.

    Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Govern ment of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic “No,” but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.

    That’s literally the job of the judicial branch, you fucking dumbass.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      19·
      3 days ago

      When people in our judicial system think money should NOT be paid to workers for work completed that doesn’t bode well for working class, going forward.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Plus, I suspect their views change when that “single district-court judge” is their pet guy in Waco, TX which Republicans have cultivated as a rubber-stamp for their agenda, and set it up so all lawsuits from the correct zip code go to him.