We could win both houses and the presidency and they would just block everything.

...but we still haven't really gotten to the question of Congress' authority, I'd guess because Congress hasn't been the plaintiff, just affected parties like state AGs, for instance.

I'm anxious to get to the question of Congress' authority in their appropriations, and the president's ability to thwart THEM, not the just the instruments of those appropriations.

therefore, the 6 RW justices only care about shithole than the lives the aid would have helped.

Got ya.

handed to Trump? Think I read it was something like twenty? Criminal.

...and doing this thing of making decisions without explanation, advantaging the 'shadow docket' emergency appeals that don't require explanation for rulings which are actually interim.

So the final decision on this hasn't been made. They still have to muddle over precedent to get to where they allow this, and make some decision on Congress' prerogatives, I'd think.

In most cases they’re dealing with preliminary injunctions by the lower courts. They don’t have a “merits” record to uphold or overturn

...and we really haven't gotten to questions about Congress' authority vs. the Executive desires in any direct way; certainly not any suit actually coming from the republican held Congress.

Every Dem in any election needs to promise to pack SCOTUS at minimum.

Roberts is proving himself worse than Taney. May he also go down in infamy forever

if, "if the president wants to do it (or not do it) is all that matters", then there is effectively no more judicial or legislative branch. drumpf alone is the sole arbiter of what gets spent and what it is spent on.

...mostly, I believe, because this republican majority won't stand up for their own authority under the Constitution, and the Supreme Court is content to let that muddle stand while not restricting the administration from continuing to do what have been illegal things in the long past.

We really haven't had a plaintiff coming before the courts arguing in behalf of Congress' prerogatives, yet.

What incentives are there for any opposition party to agree on any of it since their compromises make them look weak to their base and the President can just decide to spend it how he/she wants?

of the 2000 elections