Sam Alito knows how the American government works. He just doesn't care
Make no mistake—it was pleasing to see the Supreme Court hand President Donald Trump a loss on Wednesday, turning back his request to continue to hoard foreign aid money that Congress had already duly allocated and foreign aid partners had already earned. But what wasn’t pleasing at all was that the case was a real squeaker in terms of upholding democracy.
Only five of the nine justices agreed that Trump is not a king and cannot just single-handedly (well, double-handedly, if you count Elon Musk) decide how taxpayer money is spent. Four of them—Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas—disagreed, with Alito penning a whiny dissent where he declared himself “stunned” that the majority did not want to let Trump usurp Congress’s power of the purse.
Justice Alito is not stupid, but he thinks the American people are. Hence a dissent in which he pretends not to understand how courts work, how government funding works, and how contracts work, all in service of giving Trump far more power than the Constitution does.
Perhaps the most blatantly hypocritical part of the dissent is the rhetorical question that opens it: “Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars?”
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Largest skidmarks on the Constitution of the United States, that will go down in history!
