Happening now:
The details on this get super nerdy, but it basically comes down to jurisdiction. The court said it did not have the authority to prevent the executive branch from reorganizing USAID under the purview of the State Department, managed by Marco Rubio.
From the opinion:
The central question in these cases is whether the Court possesses subject-matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs' claims. As the Court will explain in more detail below, it has concluded that it does not...
Judge Carl J. Nichols has now approved the White House's motion to dismiss the lawsuits stopping USAID from going the way of the dodo bird, effective July 25.
There's not been a lot of chatter about this, so if it gets bumped to appeals, we'll let you know.
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