The Trump Administration on Wednesday night filed an emergency enchantment asking the Supreme Court docket to intervene after a Biden-appointed choose ordered the Admin to pay $2 billion in international 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: Seems to be 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 requested the Court docket to grant a direct administrative keep of the decrease court docket’s order and a keep pending enchantment.
DOJ attorneys blasted the Biden appointed choose 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 almost $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 ought to be stayed pending enchantment. As well as, the order ought to be instantly administratively stayed,” Trump’s DOJ argued in its emergency movement reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Biden-appointed Decide Amir Ali on Tuesday blasted DOJ attorneys over USAID disbursement and ordered the Trump Administration to pay the international contracts by 11:59 pm on Wednesday night.
Earlier this month Decide Amir Ali briefly blocked President Trump from cancelling international help contracts – these contracts have been authorized earlier than Trump even took workplace.
Decide Ali ordered the Trump Admin to revive funding for the international help contractors after Trump froze US international help for 90 days final month.
Non-profit teams sued to have their funds restored.
A few weeks in the past Decide Amir Ali, stated Trump’s order halting international funding has prompted huge hurt.
“At the least thus far, Defendants haven’t supplied any rationalization for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated international help, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance pursuits for hundreds of agreements with companies, nonprofits, and organizations across the nation, was a rational precursor to reviewing applications,” Decide Ali wrote in a 15-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
On Tuesday, Decide Ali dressed down DOJ attorneys 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?” Decide Ali stated to the DOJ attorneys throughout Tuesday’s emergency listening to.
Decide: “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 able to reply that.”
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 25, 2025
