John Roberts, USAID and Supreme Court Justice

Roberts halts decision ordering White House to pay USAID contractors
A federal district judge ordered the Trump administration to pay invoices and funding requests to State Department and USAID contractors by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
Chief Justice Roberts halts order for payments to State Department, USAID contractors
Chief Justice John Roberts granted a request from the Trump administration to halt a lower court order requiring the payment of foreign assistance funds for State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development projects by the end of Wednesday.
Chief Justice John Roberts pauses judge’s order for Trump admin to pay foreign aid contractors by midnight
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has paused a federal judge’s order that required the Trump administration to pay out foreign aid funds to contractors by midnight.
Chief Justice Roberts Briefly Pauses Order for Trump to Pay USAID Bills
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Wednesday night granted the Trump administration's request for a brief pause of a district judge's order requiring the immediate release of billions of dollars of USAID funds to contractors and other recipients.
Supreme Court grants Trump request to pause USAID payments order
The administration faced a midnight deadline for disbursing nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. The order giving officials more time is only temporary.
SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts pauses order for Trump admin. to pay USAID funding
MSNBC Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Chief Justice Roberts' order to temporarily pause the decision by a lower court mandating the Trump administration pay USAID committed funds by midnight.
John Roberts helps Trump officials by keeping freeze on foreign funds payments for now
How lasting a win it will be in the Trump administration’s bid to avoid paying congressionally appropriated funds remains to be seen.
'Least I can do': Supporters applaud as USAID employees given 15-minutes to clear out
USAID employees re-entered the headquarters of the shuttered agency on Thursday morning as supporters outside cheered and ...
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Supreme Court Puts Temporary Hold on Order to Restore Frozen USAID Funds
On Wednesday night, the United States Supreme Court placed a temporary hold on a lower court’s directive that had ordered the ...
The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a win on USAID
Chief Justice John Roberts' order delayed a lower court's deadline for the Trump administration to release funding to USAID ...
USAID Workers Pay Final Visit to Agency to Clear Out Belongings Under Federal Guard
Randy Chester, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, a union representing USAID staffers, said he and ...
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USAID workers return to HQ to clear their desks, as Trump dismantles the agency
Workers who served in the U.S. Agency for International Development were allowed a final and brief visit back to their ...
USAID workers clear their desks in Trump's final push to dismantle the agency
Thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development workers who have been fired or placed on leave as part of the Trump ...