Constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday evening that Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling in a case involving an effort to freeze $2 billion in foreign aid payments is right “on the merits.

The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a California police officer denied qualified immunity in a civil rights case. Justice Samuel Alito was not pleased and said in a dissent Monday that the Court should have reviewed the case to correct a “serious misstep” in the lower court’s analysis.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Donald Trump administration's request to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid. The conservative-majority bench voted 5-4 against the president. The decision would allow courts to enforce payments approved by Congress.