Chief Justice John Roberts halted a lower court's order directing the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in congressionally approved funding. The post ‘The president’s power is at its apex’: Chief Justice grants Trump’s request to continue freeze on foreign aid just hours ahead of court-ordered $2 billion payment deadline first appeared on Law & Crime.

Just over a month into his second term, President Donald Trump is moving with haste to push legal battles over his executive actions to the Supreme Court, signaling an aggressive strategy to expand presidential power in the face of resistance from lower courts.

Foreign aid organizations asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to require President Donald Trump's administration to promptly pay them for work they already performed for the government, as a federal judge had ordered.