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2 verified reports published on February 7, 2025.
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The pattern is getting hard to miss. Trump and his orbit keep trying to turn shock-and-awe into policy, and the courts and foreign governments keep reminding them that power is not the same thing as permission.
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A federal judge on Feb. 7, 2025, temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing about 2,200 USAID employees on paid leave and requiring many overseas staffers to return home within 30 days. The order also reinstated some workers already sidelined, but it did not resolve the separate fight over the broader funding freeze.
Trump’s executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court drew fast condemnation from the court itself and from senior European officials. The move may have played well to Trump’s own political audience, but it also advertised a willingness to punish an international tribunal for doing its job, which is not exactly a subtle foreign-policy look.