Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part
Dkt Memorial Fund Ltd. v. Agency for International Development, Dkt Memorial Fund Ltd. v. Agency for International Development
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 10, 1989No. 88-5243, 88-5266Published
1Concurring in part, dissenting in partRuth Bader Ginsburg, Circuit Judge
Based on the wide discretion Congress accorded the President to furnish assistance for voluntary population planning abroad “on such terms and conditions as he may determine,” 22 U.S.C. § 2151b(b) (1982), I concur in the court’s disposition of plaintiffs’ statutory claims. I dissent, however, from my colleagues’ rulings on the constitutional aspects of this case. In accord with the district court, I conclude that the Agency for International Development (AID) has unconstitutionally deployed its puissant purse to restrain the privately-funded speech and association of domestic nongovernmental…
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