How Trump’s $2B Court Battle Over Foreign Aid Could Reshape Executive Authority
Originally published in The Conversation
By Charles Wise
Professor Emeritus of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s first few weeks in office, a court case regarding the president’s legal right to stop payment of nearly US$2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development contracts poses an important legal question whose answer may show just how strong the country’s separation of powers actually is.