case out of Massachusetts is different. There, a federal judge has blocked an act of Congress — not an executive order but legislation — steering Medicaid funds away from abortion providers. Allocating public money is Congress’s core competency. Yet U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani not only countermanded Congress’s spending choice in a preliminary injunction, she also refused to stay her ruling pending appeal. This is the kind of lower court activism that gives the Trump administration fodder for its attacks on judges.