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Trump starts to lean on Supreme Court to save embattled executive actions
Just over a month into his second term, President Donald Trump is moving with haste to push legal battles over his executive actions to the Supreme Court, signaling an aggressive strategy to expand presidential power in the face of resistance from lower courts.
US Supreme Court allows Trump's freeze of foreign aid funding temporarily
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a federal judge's order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients.
The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a win on USAID
Chief Justice John Roberts' order delayed a lower court's deadline for the Trump administration to release funding to USAID by the end of Wednesday.
Supreme Court grants Trump request to pause USAID payments order
The administration faced a midnight deadline for disbursing nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. The order giving officials more time is only temporary.
Trump takes fight over foreign aid funding to US Supreme Court
President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to put on hold a federal judge's order requiring the government to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients for past work.
Trump foreign aid freeze to stay for now, US Supreme Court chief rules
The top judge in the United States has given temporary backing to the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid payments. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' intervention came as the administration faced a midnight deadline (05:00 GMT on Thursday) to pay contractors.
Supreme Court sides with Trump in USAID funding dispute for now
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the release of $2 billion in USAID aid, giving time for further review and telling parties to respond by Friday.
Trump’s Pick for Top Supreme Court Lawyer Can’t Rule Out Defying Courts
President Donald Trump’s pick for the country’s top legal representative at the Supreme Court declined to rule out ignoring court orders, explaining that there could be “extreme cases.” At his hearing before the Senate on Wednesday,
Trump’s biggest power grab just reached the Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a lower court order, which would have required the Trump administration to make approximately $2 billion in foreign aid payments that it had stopped as part of a broader attack on the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for DOGE
Through a series of decisions, the Republican Justices set the stage for much of the chaos of the Trump Administration ...
Court Rules Against Trump’s Appeal On Birthright Citizenship: Here’s Where Trump And Musk Are Winning—And Losing—In Court
An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship must remain ...
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Supreme Court declines Trump's emergency bid to immediately fire head of watchdog agency
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday declined to let President Donald Trump immediately fire the head of a ...
Live updates: Trump rips into Zelenskyy as 'disrespectful' in public blow-up at White House
Follow live updates as President Donald Trump receives Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House and the foreign aid ...
Supreme Court Just Dealt Donald Trump 'Unexpected' Loss—Legal Analyst
Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump administration earlier this month after the ...
Trump and GOP are ‘overreading’ a landmark Supreme Court decision as they target DEI, legal experts argue
As part of a rapidly escalating war on corporate and government diversity, equity and inclusion programs, President Donald ...
What’s a constitutional crisis? Here’s how Trump’s recent moves are challenging the Constitution’s separation of powers
Legal experts are concerned that President Donald Trump is expanding executive powers beyond the law – creating what they ...
When presidential orders collide with state laws, who gets the last word? It depends
States don't necessarily need to follow all of the directives, experts say. But some of the orders carry a threat of loss ...