{"id":96904,"date":"2025-09-29T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96904"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:11:51","slug":"do-your-friggin-job-supreme-court-posting-includes-gifted-article-from-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/09\/29\/do-your-friggin-job-supreme-court-posting-includes-gifted-article-from-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Do your friggin&#8217; job Supreme Court! Posting includes a gifted article from the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/26\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pE8.PrSl.KU9UZ2UOBU-m&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from nytimes.com by Ann E. Marimow<br \/>\n<em>The court\u2019s conservative majority allowed the president to cut the funding in part because it said his flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed \u201cthe potential harm\u201d faced by aid recipients.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid that had been appropriated by Congress<\/strong><\/span>, in a preliminary test of President Trump\u2019s efforts to wrest the power of the purse from lawmakers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cThe stakes are high: At issue is the allocation of power between the executive and Congress\u201d over how government funds are spent, wrote Justice Elena Kagan, who was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cThis result further erodes separation of powers principles that are fundamental to our constitutional order,\u201d Nicolas Sansone, a lawyer with the Public Citizen Litigation Group who represents the coalition, said in a statement. \u201cIt will also have a grave humanitarian impact on vulnerable communities throughout the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Do your friggin&#8217; job Supreme Court justices! Your job is to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America! As you fully well know, it is the Legislative Branch (Congress) that allocates funding &#8212; not the Executive Branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And there will be horrible humanitarian impacts that are going to be felt in many places because this funding is being withheld.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Making America Great Again&#8230;<strong>NOT!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid\u00a0&#8212; from nytimes.com by Ann E. Marimow The court\u2019s conservative majority allowed the president to cut the funding in part because it said his flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed \u201cthe potential harm\u201d faced by aid recipients. 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