Handed down by U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Case is filed before DDC as 1:25-cv-00239 Brief and prayer for relief here. The official order isn’t even up yet, this whole thing is moving at light speed. Parties are to file before the Court Feb. 3 no later than 11 am EST.

UPDATE: Here’s doc13 from the DDC with the order. I knew they’d get it out tonight, it just takes time to get that physically banged into the system.

ALSO PART OF THE SAME UPDATE: Word is that the NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, is telling folks to just ignore the Judge. Hmm… Anyone want to ask any of the Judges on the DDC about contempt charges? But in all fairness likely guy just wants Sauron’s gaze off his back. I’m pretty sure EOP staff close to Trump are frothing over the chance to rip NSF into tiny shreds of paper.

Presumptive OMB Director Russ Vought is hot to test out his take on the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which has been that the law in full is unconstitutional. I figure this is their first step towards getting the law in front of SCOTUS. They are absolutely itching to push on how the current court feels about “power of the purse”. And like I said, Vought has kept no secrets. He absolutely believes that Congress can write checks, but the President can pick when to cash them or not, as an intended check on “the relentless spending by Congress.”

This guy is literally gunning for some Congressional power. Let’s see how well that plays out. For all we know, the cucks in Congress will let Trump’s OMB do it.