🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
Five justices on the Supreme Court are allowing this radical Biden judgewho is still a Canadian citizento sabotage the President of the United States.
Mar 05, 2025, 12:59 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@mrddmia/posts/114111124681043718
39-year-old Canadian-born Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, the first Muslim and Arab DC judge, clerked on the Supreme Court of Canada and later led a radical leftwing group that called for defunding the police.
In the lame-duck session after Democrats lost the White House and Senate on November 5, 2024, Senate Democrats confirmed Ali on November 20 with a vote of 50-49.
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
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Feb 25
NEW: A federal judge gave the Trump administration about 36 hours to pay out hundreds millions of dollars for work performed by foreign aid contractors — and is demanding details about potential defiance of his orders.
https://politico.com/news/2025/02/25/foreign-aid-funding-state-department-022736
https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1894478962782269553
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali
#AmirAli
Ali also raised concerns about an order by Secretary of State Marco Rubio — issued five days after the restraining order took effect — pausing $15.9 billion in foreign assistance grants.
“That, again, is the very action that was held to be likely arbitrary and capricious,” Ali said.
Earlier this month, Ali — an appointee of President Joe Biden — ordered an end to the blanket freeze after grant recipients and foreign assistance organizations warned of catastrophic consequences. Ali said the State Department’s freeze — and its execution by Peter Marocco, a Trump appointee who oversees day-to-day operations at USAID — likely violated the law.
The judge ordered the State Department to pay all aid contractors who completed work before his order by midnight Wednesday. He also demanded that the government file with the court “any directive or guidance” issued about his order or about the suspension or termination of aid agreements.
“I want those documents by noon tomorrow,” the judge said.
The judge also has the power to order Rubio or other officials to appear in his courtroom or hold them in contempt of court. Ali stopped short of any such move Tuesday, but he reiterated that both sides must provide him by Wednesday with the names of officials with relevant knowledge of any ongoing disputes about compliance with the court’s order. Within hours of Ali’s ruling, the Justice Department appealed his order to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ali’s ruling is yet another clash between the fledgling Trump administration and the federal courts, which have slowed or halted more than a dozen key policy initiatives President Donald Trump has attempted to launch via executive order.