Supreme Court Lets Trump End Woke DEI Grants

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that President Trump can cut $783 million in funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The ruling lifts a lower court order that blocked Trump’s DEI cuts to the National Institute for Health.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Kavanaugh to grant a partial stay while Justice Roberts sided with The Chief Justice, Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application in full.

Justice Neil Gorsuch criticized lower-court judges for not following earlier high court orders. “All these interventions should have been unnecessary, but together they underscore a basic tenet of our judicial system: Whatever their own views, judges are duty-bound to respect ‘the hierarchy of the federal court system created by the Constitution and Congress'” Gorsuch wrote.

The Trump administration aims to cut research funding for DEI objectives, gender identity, or COVID–19. It won’t award grants to researchers based on race. More than a dozen states sued over the change in March.The lawsuit challenged grant terminations under the Administrative Procedure Act. In recent months, the National Institutes of Health has aligned its funding with changed policy priorities.