The court acted on the Republican administration’s emergency appeal in a case involving billions of dollars in congressionally approved aid.

Meanwhile, for the reasons Scalia laid out in his recusal opinion, most of the justices undoubtedly know Comey. He was a top official in two presidential administrations, and one of the preeminent Republican lawyers in Washington, DC. Comey is cut from the exact same cloth as each of the Republican justices.

The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid for now, a victory for the president’s push to exert greater control over federal spending.

On Friday, President Donald Trump's administration formally appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States under certain circumstances is constitutional,