A divided Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen. However, the court did not immediately say when the money must be released, allowing the White House to continue to dispute the issue in lower courts. The ruling was 5-4.
Scary that the decision was 5-4.
Yikes!
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
I think the frozen foreign aid should be converted to American aid and subsequently unfrozen.
Would this be a better solution for the taxpayers who generated the money?
If people want to redirect aid to Americans, that should be done constitutionally. According to the US Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse. The president does not. So, Americans can elect senators and representatives who redirect that money to American aid in the next election, if Congress does not do "what they want" before the next election.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
