&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Supreme Court's major verdict - Allows Trump to cut around $800mn of research funding in anti-DEI push")
The US Supreme Court on Thursday (August 21) enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives. This came in opposition to a Boston judge who earlier declared the cancellation of the Trump administration illegal and blocked it.
Five of the court’s six Republican-appointed justices sided with the administration: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. This is the 18th time the apex court has at least partially granted an emergency bid during Trump’s second term.
Gorsuch was the most pointed in his criticism, accusing the judge and several others of defying the high court. “Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” Gorsuch wrote.
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US District Judge William Young, an appointee of former President Reagan, blocked the cuts in June in response to lawsuits filed by health groups and 16 Democratic state attorneys general.
The Trump administration argued that Young had no right to block the cancellation. Moreover, the Justice Department had accused the judge of defying the Supreme Court’s ruling. “This case is not closed. The district court flouted vertical stare decisis by following this Court’s dissenters over the majority,” the Justice Department wrote.
