Trump loses in court three times, in USAID, refugees and frozen funds, in 90 minutes

Donald Trump’s administration received three important setbacks in three separated courts on Tuesday when the president’s agenda faces an avalanche of legal challenges.

Federal judges in Washington, DC and Seattle ordered the administration to restart hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for foreign aid, blocked the administration of freezing subsidies and federal loans, and temporarily noted the president’s executive order suspending refugee admissions.

The decisions were issued within 90 minutes with each other.

In Washington, the district judge appointed by DC Joe Biden Loren Alikhan issued a preliminary court That blocks the “poorly conceived” freezing of administration in federal subsidies and loans.

“In the simplest terms, freezing was badly conceived from the beginning,” Alikhan wrote.

“The defendants wanted to stop up to $ 3 billion in federal expenses practically during the night, or expected each federal agency to review each of their subsidies, loans and funds for compliance in less than 24 hours,” he wrote. “The amplitude of that command is almost unfathomable.”

Martin Bernstein, 95, whose parents were refugees, has a signal when people meet outside the federal court in Seattle after a judge blocked Donald Trump's effort to stop the nation's refugee intake system — Martin Bernstein, 95, whose parents were refugees, has a signal when people meet outside the federal court in Seattle after a judge blocked Donald Trump’s effort to stop the nation’s refugee intake system (AP)

Meanwhile, another federal judge appointed by BIDEN in DC rebuked government lawyers who could not seem to respond if the administration paid foreign assistance contractors and non -profit organizations for the work that had already been done before stop , which caused global chaos among foreign aid workers among foreign aid workers. and the people they serve.

Ali previously ordered the administration to restore funds for foreign aid contracts with the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, on February 13.

“Now we are 12 days (after the request), and you cannot answer me if any funds you recognize are covered by the order of the court are not frozen?” said district judge Amir Ali. “Can’t you give me any fact about funds that are not frozen under (temporary restriction order)?”

The lawyer of the Department of Justice, Indraneel Sur, told Ali that “he was not in a position to respond.”

Ali gave the government until midnight on Wednesday to fulfill its contractual obligations. The administration was also ordered to provide the court for any notice or guidance that officials sent on the fulfillment of the previous court order to defrost the aid.

And in the state of Washington, the district judge appointed by Biden, Jamal N. Whitehead, temporarily blocked Trump’s ban on refugee admissions by granting a preliminary court order that orders the administration to restart a refugee resettlement program While the legal challenge is developed.

“The president has a substantial discretion … to suspend refugee admissions,” Whitehead said according to Associated Press. “But that authority is not unlimited.”

“It cannot ignore the detailed framework of the Congress for refugee admissions and the limits imposed by the president’s ability to suspend the same,” he added.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to quickly pay the USAID contractors on February 25 after freezing the aid (AP)

The plaintiffs in that lawsuit, which includes resettlement groups based on the faith and nine refugees seeking admission to the United States, argue that the suspension of Trump’s admission and funds for the suspension of refugees and funds Viola the authority of the Congress to make immigration laws. The United States Catholic Bishop Conference has sued the administration.

“The United States has resettle refugees under the refugee law of Congress for almost 50 years and communities throughout the country have welcomed and embraced them,” According to a statement De Deepa Alagesan, supervisor lawyer for international refugee assistance, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs.

“Today’s message is clear: the actions of this government do not represent the will of Congress or, crucially, the will of the people,” said Alagesan.

The Trump administration faces dozens of new legal challenges throughout the country in response to its executive orders and policy maneuvers that opponents argue that they are flatly unconstitutional or that fly in front of the power of the Bag Congress.

The White House has counted some victories, but the challenges are still in the early stages, with Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court that probably intervene in the coming weeks and months.

Until now, only a challenge, which involves Trump’s dismissal of a key ethics official who handles the protection of complainants, has reached the Supreme Court after Trump’s appeals. The judges declined to intervene immediately, but it is expected that they imminently review the case again.