At last check, we were north of 160 federal lawsuits filed against Trump administration executive actions, and while the district courts have been furiously handing out temporary restraining orders (TROs) and injunctions, a number of the cases have been snaking their way up through the appellate courts to the Supreme Court. Mind you, these are largely procedural rulings rather than decisions on the merits. There's still a long way to go before all the dust settles.

But the Trump administration scored a win before the Supreme Court Friday afternoon as the high court issued a 5-4 decision granting the administration's request for a stay of a district court TRO, which enjoined the administration from terminating various education-related grants and required it to pay out past-due grant obligations and continue paying grant obligations as they accrue. //

As noted above, this was a 5-4 decision. It is per curiam, so there's no designated author of the majority decision, but Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's three liberal justices in dissent. //

DaveM Outerlimitsfan
an hour ago
Roberts has been a problem from the day he became Chief Justice.
When he became Chief Justice he exposed himself as a typical long service government bureaucrat- i.e the smooth functioning of the organization is vastly more important than anything the organization actually does.