The Trump Administration on Wednesday night filed an emergency attraction asking the Supreme Court docket to intervene after a Biden-appointed decide ordered the Admin to pay $2 billion in overseas contracts by midnight tonight.
The DC Circuit Court docket of Appeals has not but dominated on Trump’s emergency request for an administrative keep so the DOJ went proper to the excessive court docket because the midnight deadline looms.
BREAKING: Appears to be like just like the justices might be woken. 1/ https://t.co/vy2inJeXZB pic.twitter.com/d1Recpc5dP
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) February 27, 2025
Trump’s DOJ on Wednesday morning asked the Court to grant an immediate administrative stay of the decrease court docket’s order and a keep pending attraction.
DOJ legal professionals blasted the Biden appointed decide for his “intrusive and profoundly misguided” order.
“The district court docket’s order is extremely intrusive and profoundly misguided. It seems to ponder the instantly outlay of practically $2 billion. The federal government has no sensible mechanism to get better wrongfully disbursed funds that exit the door to entities which have complained that they’re close to insolvency. And the district court docket’s broad train of jurisdiction, resolving financial claims past its correct authority and addressing the hypothetical claims of events not earlier than the court docket, was with out authorized foundation. The district court docket’s order must be stayed pending attraction. As well as, the order must be instantly administratively stayed,” Trump’s DOJ argued in its emergency motion reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Biden-appointed Choose Amir Ali on Tuesday blasted DOJ legal professionals over USAID disbursement and ordered the Trump Administration to pay the overseas contracts by 11:59 pm on Wednesday night.
Earlier this month Choose Amir Ali briefly blocked President Trump from cancelling overseas support contracts – these contracts have been authorised earlier than Trump even took workplace.
Choose Ali ordered the Trump Admin to revive funding for the overseas support contractors after Trump froze US overseas support for 90 days final month.
Non-profit teams sued to have their funds restored.
A few weeks in the past Choose Amir Ali, mentioned Trump’s order halting overseas funding has triggered huge hurt.
“A minimum of so far, Defendants haven’t supplied any clarification for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated overseas support, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance pursuits for 1000’s of agreements with companies, nonprofits, and organizations across the nation, was a rational precursor to reviewing applications,” Choose Ali wrote in a 15-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
On Tuesday, Choose Ali dressed down DOJ legal professionals and strong-armed the Trump Administration over the disbursement of funds.
“I don’t know why I can’t get a straight reply from you. Are you conscious of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for these contracts and agreements that have been frozen earlier than Feb. 13?” Choose Ali mentioned to the DOJ legal professionals throughout Tuesday’s emergency listening to.
Choose: “I don’t know why I can’t get a straight reply from you. Are you conscious of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for these contracts and agreements that have been frozen earlier than Feb. 13?”
DOJ lawyer: “I’m not ready to reply that.”
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 25, 2025
