“By a 5-4 vote, the court told U.S. District Judge Amir Ali to clarify his earlier order that required the Republican administration to release nearly $2 billion in aid for work that had already been done” 
“clarify his earlier order”
I read that as  “first year law students present better arguments - for the sake of transparency and extraordinary leniency,
re-write this trash with a logical argument supported by facts, logic, precedent and law”.