John Yang:
Well, you will remember, on day one, the president froze foreign aid spending. Groups that got that money went to court.
And a district court judge here in Washington, a Biden appointee named Amir Ali, said that money for projects that had been completed had to be sent out the door. The Trump administration went to the Supreme Court wanting to block that order. And, today, the Supreme Court said no.
It was a 5-4 vote. The majority included Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative Trump appointee to the bench. And I’d like to tell you why they did this, but I can’t, because there was no explanation, as is usually the case when you’re dealing with an emergency application. And it’s an unsigned order. It’s part of what’s called the shadow docket.
