When it became apparent that Chief Justice John Roberts was no longer reliably in the conservative wing of the Supreme Court, Republicans did not panic. After all, they had five stalwart conservatives in Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Or did they?
On March 5, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Trump Administration can’t block nearly $2 billion in USAID payments to foreign aid contractors. Roberts and the court’s three liberals came down on the side of “forcing the money out the door despite Trump’s efforts to gut a bloated agency,” Human Events Editor Jack Posobiec noted.
Dissenting were Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh.
That left Barrett to essentially break the tie. She came down on the side of the liberals. […]
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