Has the Supreme Court finally gotten fed up with courts setting executive-branch policies? Based on last night’s intervention by Chief Justice Supreme Court John Roberts, the answer could be yes.
At the very least, Roberts appeared annoyed with the circumstances of the order to restart foreign-aid payments. Federal judge Amir Ali had ordered Donald Trump to comply by midnight last night, but Roberts said not so fast, pal:
Chief Justice John Roberts late Wednesday granted the Trump administration’s request to put on hold a lower court order that required it to pay an estimated $2 billion in foreign assistance funds for State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development projects by midnight Wednesday.
Roberts, who oversees requests for emergency relief arising from cases in the District of Columbia, acted alone in halting the decision from a…
