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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather amazing that there are 4 supreme court justices who do not believe federal contracts should be enforceable.[/quote]

Replying to myself, these same four Justices held Biden could not use a statute passed by Congress for student debt relief because the statute authorized it but needed to extra double authorize it.

But for Trump, he can simply ignore statutes and appropriations entirely, Congress is irrelevant.[/quote]

Many SCOTUS opinions are just reverse-engineering to whatever policy outcome the majority wants. I remember going to law school naively thinking that the justices were paragons of reasoned thinking, but that the more I learned, the more it was clearly just "We hate this administration and its policies" or "We like this administration and its policies" determining an outcome. [/quote]

Yes, but Roberts likes to pontificate about upholding the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as an institution.   So he doesn't want to look entirely like a political hack in this case, but it doesn't bode well that the vote was so close.[/quote]

It’s a miracle these 2 did the right thing by telling the government to pay its contractually obligated bills for services rendered.

But it’s a small victory.

The reality is NGOs staffed up to implement programs at the request of the government and covered by contracts. While this latest decision says the govt must pay what they already owe, it doesn’t say they must also honor the contracts moving forward.

And that’s a big problem. [/quote]

Of course.  And just because the SCOTUS has ordered the govt to pay for work already completed, it doesn't mean that Rubio, Marocco and co will actually have it done or have it done in a timely and professional way.  You could make life very difficult for tiny NGOs overseas by requiring them to file suit to get paid or something that would be out of the depth of possibility for a small organization who can't afford the legal fees. And that will further impoverish people who have worked without pay and create even worse feelings about the USA overseas.[/quote]

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