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Appealing to the consciences of conservative Supreme Court justices isn’t going to save us in the even more unhinged era of Trump 2.0. But even a broken clock is right twice a day—and on Wednesday, conservative Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts sided with the three liberal justices to reject the Trump administration’s plea to withhold billions of dollars in foreign aid. And now, all hell is breaking loose in MAGA world.

In February, District Judge Amir Ali ruled that the Trump administration must pay the $2 billion in lifesaving foreign aid already promised under existing USAID contracts, issuing a February 26 deadline. [...] The Trump administration appealed Ali’s ruling to the Supreme Court, which paused Ali’s deadline to review Trump’s arguments. Then, on Wednesday, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court determined that the Trump administration must comply with Ali’s ruling, directing the district judge to issue clear instructions on Trump’s obligations and the timing for his administration to disburse the aid.

[...] Trump supporters are now displeased with the two treacherous conservative justices, and their ire has fallen particularly hard on Coney Barrett. This is probably because Trump appointed her, but the specific lines of attack from MAGA influencers suggest all the typical right-wing misogyny is also at play here.

“Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee,” white nationalist influencer Laura Loomer tweeted on Wednesday, alongside a photo of Coney Barrett and her family, including her adoptive children who are Black. The racist subtext couldn’t have been more obvious, given everything we know about Loomer’s rabidly bigoted beliefs.

Mike Cernovich, the far-right Pizzagate conspiracy theorist and alleged sexual assailant, wrote of Coney Barrett, “She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes. Another DEI hire. It always ends badly.” [...]

[...] fellow viral MAGA star Jack Posobiec [is] now attacking Coney Barrett with cartoonishly sexist labels by referring to her as a “DEI hire."

Another far-right influencer, Paul A. Szypula, called Barrett’s decision to side with the liberal justices “disgraceful.” He also called her “a bad SCOTUS nominee.” Charlie Kirk replied, “Looking that way.”

[...] Coney Barrett overturned Roe v. Wade and nearly all of her rulings have made our lives immeasurably worse over the last five years. I guess, at least this one time, she and Roberts decided to draw the line at the U.S. violating existing foreign aid contracts to appease the bored, right-wing tech billionaire currently amusing himself by destroying our government.