Chief Justice Roberts temporarily stopped Judge Amir Ali’s midnight deadline and halted his order forcing the Trump Admin to pay $2 billion in foreign contracts.
Biden-appointed Judge Amir Ali on Tuesday blasted DOJ lawyers over USAID disbursement and ordered the Trump Administration to pay the foreign contracts by 11:59 pm on Wednesday evening.
The Supreme Court immediately responded to Trump’s emergency request to vacate Judge Amir Ali’s order.
“IT IS ORDERED that the February 25, 2025 orders of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, case Nos. 1:25-cv-00400 and 1:25-cv-00402, are hereby stayed pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court. It is further ordered that any response to the application be filed on or before Friday, February 28, 2025, by 12 p.m. (EST)” Chief Justice Roberts wrote in a brief order.
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— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) February 27, 2025
The Trump Administration on Wednesday evening filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to intervene after a Biden-appointed judge ordered the Admin to pay $2 billion in foreign contracts by midnight tonight.
“Neither the original TRO nor the district court’s subsequent clarifications in any way suggested that the government must pay particular invoices on particular dates,” the Acting Solicitor General wrote in the government’s application to vacate the judge’s order.
“The court’s 11:59 p.m. 30-some-hour deadline thus moved all the goalposts. Itis not tailored to any actual payment deadlines associated with respondents’ invoices or drawn-down requests, or anyone else’s. And it has thrown what should be an orderly review by the government into chaos,” the DOJ argued.
The DOJ rightly argued that the district court “lacked any jurisdiction even to issue this order dictating contractual payments by a date certain to remedy purported contractual breaches.”
BREAKING: Looks like the justices will be woken. 1/ https://t.co/vy2inJeXZB pic.twitter.com/d1Recpc5dP
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) February 27, 2025
Trump’s DOJ on Wednesday morning asked the Court to grant an immediate administrative stay of the lower court’s order and a stay pending appeal.
DOJ lawyers blasted the Biden appointed judge for his “intrusive and profoundly erroneous” order.
The appeals court denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the judge’s order.
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