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This application should have been denied for numerous obvious and independent reasons,
Jackson wrote
If respondents ultimately prevail, they can recover any wrongfully withheld funds through suit in an appropriate forum,
What they're saying ... the majority wrote on Friday
Reinstating the challenged grant-termination policy will inflict significant harm on grantees — a fact that the Government barely contests,
The other side ... Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissent that was joined by Justice Sonia SotomayorThe aim is clear: to stop the executive branch in its tracks and prevent the administration from changing direction on hundreds of billions of dollars of government largesse that the executive branch considers contrary to the United States’ interests and fiscal health,
she wrote
Only this court can right the ship — and the time to do so is now.”
She addedIt is beyond puzzling that a majority of justices conceive of the government’s application as an emergency,
liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said in a separate opinion
Nowhere in its papers does the government defend the legality of canceling the education grants at issue here,
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It is a mistake for the court to grant this emergency application,
Kagan wroteThe harms that will result from permitting the department to reinstate these terminations are directly contrary to Congress's goals in enacting the (programs) and in entrusting the department with their implementation,
Jackson wrote