Author: Kaelan Deese of Washington Examiner
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Appeals court says Trump can cut $2 billion in foreign aid
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump can withhold nearly $2 billion in previously approved foreign aid payments, delivering a significant legal win to his administration’s effort to scale back the U.S. Agency for International Development. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia voted 2-1 to overturn a lower court’s order requiring the administration to pay out…
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States’ competing opinions on Trump’s ballot eligibility compounds pressure on U.S. Supreme Court
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In his dissenting opinion this month, Colorado Justice Carlos Samour worried about what his colleagues’ decision to disqualify Donald Trump from the presidential ballot means for the country’s grand experiment in democracy. In particular, Samour raised the prospect of the states, given the nuances of their own election laws, ruling disparately on the question of Trump’s…
