NIH cut hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funds and said the funding is used to conduct illegal DEI and research related to gender identity.
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The Trump administration has fought against grants grants granted to the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a multi-million-dollar award ruling, CBS News Report.
President Trump began cutting research funds shortly after taking office in January, allegedly ignoring his executive orders with issues such as gender identity and DEI. By early April, 16 states and multiple academic associations and advocacy groups had sued, deeming that the cuts to be an unreasonable executive over-disclosure and bypassing statutory procedures.
Since then, the federal district court has ordered a preliminary injunction that requires all grants to be restored, and the appeals court denies the Trump administration’s request to cease the decision. Now, executive legal officials are bringing the case to the Supreme Court.
In an emergency appeal, Deputy Attorney General John Sauer wrote that the NIH attempted to “stop the wrong district court from continuing to ignore” the presidential order.
The lawyer also noted that the Supreme Court’s April ruling allowed the Ministry of Education to terminate some of its own grants for similar reasons. In this case, the judge said the Trump administration may be able to demonstrate that the lower court lacks jurisdiction to demand payment of federal rulings.
Saul wrote that the court system does not allow for “lower free competition”, i.e., district judges can arbitrarily improve their policy judgments rather than the executive branch’s policy judgments, and their own legal judgments are on the court’s judgments. ”
