A federal appeals court lifted an injunction ordering his administration to continue making foreign aid payments.

In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.

After the two separate appeals court rulings that handcuffed Boasberg, it was left to Pillard to defend the chief judge, a respected jurist with a reputation for probity and measuredness who has come under vicious attack from the White House and Attorney General Pam Bondi for his decisions in the AEA case: