On Thursday night time’s present, Rachel Maddow highlighted that the U.S. Supreme Court docket is ready to resolve on one of many quite a few authorized challenges in opposition to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to dismantle authorities businesses. The ruling particularly offers with their preliminary try at gutting the United States Company for Worldwide Growth.
“Do they try to give him what he wants from the courts so that Trump doesn’t break that glass, doesn’t, you know, smash through the brightest bright line that we have and effectively end the Republic?” Maddow requested.
The Supreme Court docket briefly put a maintain on a federal choose’s order requiring the Trump administration to launch round $2 billion in funds for already accomplished contracts, setting a deadline for compliance at 11:59 PM. on Wednesday.
U.S. District Decide Amir H. Ali directed the Trump administration to elevate its freeze of federal funding over two weeks in the past. Trump and Musk’s DOGE cabal have ignored the order, leading to Ali’s deadline. On the identical time, Vice President JD Vance and Musk have questioned the judiciary’s authority to verify government energy.
However Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts put Ali’s order on maintain whereas the Trump administration appeals.
“Do they tell him that if he does try to defy the courts, he is effectively declaring war on the United States of America?” Maddow continued. “We’ll see. We don’t know how the U.S. Supreme Court is going to handle this, and we don’t know how directly they’re going to get at this key issue.”
