The reactionary Supreme Court majority, in one of their signature unsigned and barely argued rulings, recently allowed Trump to impound $4 billion in foreign aid spending. It follows that Trump could end any “shutdown” immediately by just directing the agencies to reopen and the money to be spent. This isn’t the first time that the Court has allowed Trump to arrogate Congress’s power of the purse to himself. This is about Donald Trump shredding any semblance of America’s democratic republic, with the complete support of his corrupt regime toadies on the Supreme Court and in Congress. When a recent poll by Blueprint Research asked if voters agreed with Democrats in saying “Republicans are to blame for a shutdown because Republicans have allowed Trump to trample American democracy,” they got 50 percent agreement, with just 35 percent disagreeing.