This decision comes after a different federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay the remainder of foreign aid owed to contractors for completed work last week, noting in a new court ruling that the administration likely violated the separation of powers doctrine by "unlawfully impounding" ...
Coney Barrett, part of the courts rightwing majority, split with her fellow conservative justices this week. She and John Roberts, the chief justice, voted to leave in place a ruling from a US district judge which ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze the nearly $2bn in aid for forei...
But Judge Amir H. Ali stopped short of ordering Trump officials to use the money to revive the thousands of contracts they have abruptly terminated for U.S. aid and development work around the world.Alis ruling Monday evening came hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the...
The judge also compelled the administration to allow USAid to return to its currently shuttered headquarters at the Ronald Regan building in the event that the underlying case challenging the closure of the agency was successful. The administration is expected to appeal the ruling.At issue in the...
U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, said in the ruling that the Trump administration likely exceeded its constitutional authority in attempting to block the payments owed by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to grant recipients and...
Carl Nichols, a US district judge and Donald Trump appointee, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put the employees on paid leave as of midnight Friday.Forced leave had already begun for some on Friday when the court ruling came through as workers...
"At present, the agency is still standing," U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote in the ruling. "And so the alleged injuries on which plaintiffs rely in seeking injunctive relief flow essentially from their members existing employment relationships with USAID."'WASTEFUL AND DANGEROUS': DOGE'S...
District Court Judge Carl Nichols’ previous block on the administration’s efforts to cut USAID’s staff, with his latest ruling stating that “the risk posed to USAID employees who are placed on administrative leave while stationed abroad — if there is any — is far more minimal than it ...
Trump and the tech billionaire Elon Musk have made false claims and aired conspiracy theories about rampant fraud and waste at the agency.The supreme courts action overturns the ruling of a federal judge, Amir Ali , who had ordered the Trump administration to keep funds flowing to thousands ...
had ordered the agency to temporarily reinstate some 2,100 personnel who had previously been placed on leave while blocking the administration from placing another 2,000 or so on leave. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by President Trump, also put a stay on orders for ove...