WOKE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST TRUMP - WAKES TRUMP UP FROM FEVER DREAM

Until today, Donald Trump never learned the Separation of Powers clause of the U.S. Constitution designates three equal branches of government and categorically prohibits a U.S. President from interfering with Congressionally-mandated programs and Congressional appropriations for those Congressional programs.

Moreover, the U.S. President is statutorily charged with good faith implementation of Congressional programs and appropriations.

Donald Trump is so uneducated about our American democratic process and federal law that Trump does not realize that the term "fraud" as Trump uses the term has very specific legal meanings and statutory definitions that do not include a President's opinion of Congressional programs and appropriations or even the opinion of a President's Special Designated Asshole.

Trump is of such low intellect and scruples that he would rather violate federal law and his statutory duties to kick Congress aside and impose the King's Will on Congress and We The People and our American democratic process.

In a true just and perfect world, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland would be cellies in a federal penitentiary for the rest of their miserable lives.

Each and every Trump attack on We The People reminds me of how Merrick Garland failed his duty to protect America from all domestic enemies.

May God Damn Merrick Garland and damn Joe Biden for not firing and replacing Garland in a timely, meaningful manner.

Biden and Garland had four years to protect Americans and American democracy but FAILED TO DO SO.

Biden and Garland had four years to stop THE INSURRECTIONIST from running for President again and dismissing all the very hard work and charges federal prosecutors brought against Defendant Trump.

Now Trump celebrates his ass rape of American justice and democracy while he tries to re-write history. THANK YOU MERRICK GARLAND AND JOE BIDEN!!!

A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court order on foreign aid funding, clearing the way for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to restart nearly $2 billion in payments.

The 5-4 order directed the lower court to clarify what obligations the government must fulfill to global health groups with consideration of the “feasibility of any compliance timelines.”

The decision drew a sharp dissent from four conservative justices who said a District Court judge in D.C. probably lacks the power to compel the federal government to make such payments.

“Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government 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,” wrote Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.

A federal judge in D.C. had ordered the money to begin flowing last week, after the Trump administration appeared to flout an earlier ruling that said a 90-day freeze on all foreign aid was imposed too hastily and should be lifted for now.

But the government appealed the Feb. 26 deadline, saying it would take weeks longer for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department to resume payments for work completed before Feb. 13.

Wednesday’s decision is the first by the Supreme Court on President Donald Trump’s blitz of executive orders and firings in the opening weeks of his presidency. The administration is already facing more than 100 lawsuits challenging its actions in lower courts, so other rulings are sure to follow.

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The justices turned aside arguments by acting solicitor general Sarah M. Harris, who called U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali’s deadline an “impossible order” since it gave officials only about 36 hours to comply.

Harris also said the judge exceeded his authority, an argument the Trump administration has made repeatedly as the president seeks to significantly expand executive power.

“Ordering the United States to pay all pending requests under foreign-aid instruments on a timeline of the district court’s choosing—without regard to whether the requests are legitimate, or even due yet— intrudes on the President’s broad foreign-affairs powers and upends the systems the Executive Branch has established to disburse aid,” Harris wrote in a filing Monday.

The lawsuit seeking to restart the funding was brought by the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and the Global Health Council. They said the Trump administration had defied a temporary restraining order by Ali that initially required payments to begin again in mid-February.

The organizations said the freeze had pushed aid groups to the brink of insolvency, forced layoffs and delayed lifesaving HIV drugs and food assistance to unstable regions worldwide.

“The government comes to this Court with an emergency of its own making,” the health groups wrote in a filing to the justices last week. “It made no effort to comply with the TRO for two weeks.”

A senior USAID official was placed on leave Sunday after circulating memos saying the spending freeze will result in “preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale.”

In a filing Monday, the global health groups wrote that those memos “further confirm that Defendants have taken no steps toward compliance with this Court’s February 13 TRO and, to the contrary, have actively taken steps to prevent compliance.”

The memos estimate the pause in foreign aid could cause up to 166,000 more malaria deaths annually, 200,000 more cases of polio and 2 million to 3 million more deaths a year from shuttering immunization programs, the filing said.

The Feb. 26 deadline Ali imposed required the government to begin paying for all humanitarian relief work completed before Feb. 13. The Supreme Court was only considering whether to delay the Feb. 26 deadline, not the merits of Ali’s broader temporary restraining order, which remains in effect until March 10.

That order bars the government from freezing a broad range of payments and taking other steps to dismantle USAID.

But the global health groups are arguing that the government is ignoring the broader order.

They sued after Trump, on his first day in office, paused foreign aid for 90 days.

He said he wanted his administration to reevaluate the assistance to determine whether it was in line with his foreign policy agenda.

The Trump administration told Ali that it could continue to put a hold on the funds and trim USAID in spite of his temporary restraining order, based on statutes and regulations that exist separately from Trump’s first-day directive on foreign aid.

An administration spokesman has said a review of foreign aid had identified 5,800 USAID awards worth about $54 billion and 4,100 State Department grants that could be cut.

After a tense hearing on the matter on Feb. 25, Ali told officials to restart funding one day later.

The legal battle over the foreign aid freeze will now continue in the lower courts, where the global health groups have asked for a preliminary injunction — a more permanent stop than a temporary restraining order — against the pause.

The case is the second time the high court has considered one of Trump’s early moves.

Last month, the justices put off ruling on the Trump administration’s request to remove the head of an independent watchdog agency as legal wrangling plays out in lower courts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/04/trump-firing-cathy-harris-mspb-illegal/

Federal judge rules Trump’s firing of merit board chair was illegal

Cathy A. Harris, appointed by Biden in 2022, cannot be fired ‘at will’ from the MSPB and must be restored, the judge rules

A federal judge in Washington ruled Tuesday that Cathy A. Harris, the chair of the federal Merit Systems Protection Board, cannot be fired by President Donald Trump “at will” and entered a permanent injunction prohibiting administration officials from taking action against her unless she is found inefficient, neglectful or corrupt in office.

Harris received an email Feb. 10 from the White House personnel office saying her position was “terminated, effective immediately.”

She sued Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other Trump administration officials the next day, arguing that she could be removed only for cause, not “at will” by the president.

She was one of five heads of government watchdog agencies who were summarily fired that week.

Cathy A. Harris (Merit Systems Protection Board)

Within a week, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras entered a temporary restraining order, saying Harris must be returned to her post.

On Tuesday, Contreras granted summary judgment to Harris and a permanent injunction prohibiting Bessent, the White House personnel office, the current acting chair of the merit board and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought from removing Harris.

The three members of the board are appointed by the president.

“Federal law states,” Contreras wrote, “that members of the MSPB may be removed from office ‘only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office,’” but the president “provided no reason for Harris’s termination.”

In one hearing, Contreras pressed government lawyers for reasons Harris should be fired, or how her handling of cases might differ from Trump’s approach, but the lawyers declined to answer.

“Federal law thus prevents the President from removing members of the MSPB without cause,” Contreras ruled in a 35-page opinion, “and the President’s attempt to terminate Harris was unlawful.”

The Merit Systems Protection Board’s primary function is to protect federal hiring and promoting practices from partisan politics by allowing employees to appeal actions such as suspensions and terminations.

The board also hears whistleblower retaliation cases.

The Senate confirmed Harris to the board in May 2022 and as chair in March 2024.

Her term expires March 1, 2028.

The Trump administration did “not dispute that Harris has been efficient and effective in her role at the MSPB,” Contreras wrote.

When she was appointed, the agency had a backlog of about 3,800 cases.

By January of this year, the agency had cleared almost 99 percent of the backlog and Harris had participated in nearly 4,500 decisions.

Contreras noted that the Supreme Court had encountered similar cases twice before, and reinstated both fired officials.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 fired a member of the Federal Trade Commission who had been appointed by his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, which the high court found illegal.

Similarly, a move by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 to fire a War Claims Commission member appointed by President Harry S. Truman was also reversed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/04/judge-trump-order-transgender-healthcare-youth/

Second judge blocks Trump order on gender transition care for youths

The nationwide order also halts a Trump executive order to officially recognize only male and female sexes.

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide order blocking executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that target transgender young people and their health care, clearing the way for hospitals to provide the treatment.

The ruling comes days after a judge in Seattle blocked the executive order on gender transition care for youths in Washington, Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado in a lawsuit brought by attorneys general in those states.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson granted a preliminary injunction in a case filed in Baltimore, saying plaintiffs had shown that the lawsuit was likely to succeed on grounds that the executive orders overstepped the president’s authority, conflict with laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and are unconstitutional.

The decision came a day before a temporary restraining order was set to expire in the case.

“The challenged provisions of the Executive Orders place significant conditions on federal funding that Congress did not prescribe,” Hurson wrote.

“This, the Constitution simply does not allow, as “[t]here is no provision in the Constitution that authorizes the President to enact, to amend, or to repeal statutes.”

Transgender young people, their parents and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups PFLAG and GLMA last month sued to roll back a pair of Trump orders to officially recognize only male and female sexes and to attempt to end federal support for providers of gender transition care for people under 19.

In its order, the Trump administration said gender transition care amounts to “chemical and surgical mutilation.”

Karen Loewy, senior counsel at Lambda Legal, said Tuesday that the ruling allowed plaintiffs to breathe a sigh of relief as they wait for likely appeals from the Department of Justice. Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Every plaintiff is in this to ensure that their kids or they themselves have access to the medically necessary gender-affirming care that helps them live their fully realized healthy lives … and to thrive,” Loewy said.

The health-care executive orders prompted some hospitals and providers of gender transition and LGBTQ care to stop filling prescriptions for medications such as puberty blockers and hormones to youths, or to suspend care altogether.

Some hospitals — including Children’s National Hospital in D.C. and the health-care systems affiliated with the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University — resumed care after Hurson, who was appointed in 2023 by President Joe Biden, issued temporary restraining orders Feb. 13 against the orders.

But now they all can, Loewy said.

“Health-care institutions across the country are now free to resume or continue providing the gender-affirming medical care that is necessary without having to worry doing so will cut off the money for advance research, training their medical staff and all the things that health-care institutions need to do,” Loewy said.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts saves democracy by ruling against Trump and FOR the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. Roberts and four other justices smacked down Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh - literally stopping the dissenting justices from creating the greatest constitutional crisis in U.S. history by crowning the King - empowering Trump to violate the Separation of Powers clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Thank you John Roberts for doing the right thing for American democracy and We The People.