They are just so fecklessly incompetent -- and malignant -- that the whole thing has become a sad farce. Here's the First Circuit's 48 page slapdown of today, and a bit:
. . .OMB circulated a document to federal agencies entitled "Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13" ("OMB Spreadsheet"). It "required" "[a]ll Federal agencies that provide Federal financial assistance. . . to complete the attached spreadsheet and submit it to OMB" by February 7, 2025. The spreadsheet listed over 2,500 federal funding lines, including for programs that the OMB Q&A explicitly stated were excluded from the pause, the Head Start program being one example. . . .
[T]he Plaintiff-States alleged that they receive significant amounts of federal funds to provide essential services to their residents. They further alleged that the Agency Defendants' implementation of the OMB Directive, by resulting in the withholding of these funds and providing them with less than twenty-four hours' notice of doing so, would interfere with their ability to provide such services. They alleged, too, that the tight time frame for the OMB Directive's implementation and the last-minute notice of it "compounded the[ir] injuries" because they could neither "prepare for or mitigate" the fiscal impact nor effectively plan for any future or downstream fiscal effects. . . .
[D]espite bearing a "strong showing" burden under Nken's first factor, the [Trumpian] Defendants make no clear or developed argument to us that the District Court abused its discretion in relying on that record to apply the preliminary injunction to such freezes. We thus conclude that, as to this aspect of their motion for the stay, the Defendants also have failed to make a strong showing of their likelihood of success on the merits. . . .
So. . . it is like. . . 82-3 against Tangerine 2.0. Hilarious.
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