Supreme Court Allows Trump Officials to Freeze Billions in Foreign Aid

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The Supreme Court allowed Trump officials to freeze billions in foreign aid, sparking controversy and debate about executive power and the implications for US foreign policy.

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stopbulyingAuthor

3 months ago

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Does this mean that the Executive is liable for not freezing aid to nations engaged in genocide, if they have power to freeze foreign aid?

How did they obstruct the Leahy Law investigation that should have prevented further funding for genocide?

stopbulyingAuthor

3 months ago

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Does this judgement affect the president's international liability per the Laws of War and IHL International Human Rights Law?

Before such ruling, a president could have argued that Congress is also or instead liable for war crimes.

Does such autocratic control - here granted by a court - enable effective prosecution for war crimes?

stopbulyingAuthor

3 months ago

Did the executive intentionally request that the court would find them accountable (for genocide, for example) by erring in granting autocratic, singular authority (when it is clear in the Constitution that the President and Congress should work together on the budget and war declarations, and it is very clear that there should be Separation of Powers)?

qmr

3 months ago

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Does this mean we can stop funding genocide and apartheid?

tsoukase

3 months ago

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How can so much money and power not win a bunch of poor peasants?

qmr

3 months ago

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See Vietnam.

tsoukase

3 months ago

Was Vietnam not supported then by the two communist Superpowers? A closer example is Afghanistan: the West couldn't win a bunch of desert nomads for 20 years.

sleepyguy

3 months ago

There are no limits to the funding Israel will receive from the US Gov. This was said openly by the Administration.

sleepyguy

3 months ago

http://archive.today/zuhpe

bediger4000

3 months ago

Since the US is concentrating power and decision making at the topmost levels, mostly in Trump himself, does the responsibility also get concentrated in Trump himself? That is, what happens when something goes very wrong on a large scale? Who's accountable? This is important because as we all believe, and history shows us, power without accountability goes very wrong.

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