{"id":165174,"date":"2025-08-22T00:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165174\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:54:24","slug":"supreme-court-allows-trump-to-cut-nearly-800m-of-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165174\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court allows Trump to cut nearly $800M of research funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars\u2019 worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court<\/a> decided Thursday.<\/p>\n

The split court lifted a judge\u2019s order blocking $783 million worth of cuts made by the National Institutes of Health to align with Republican President Donald Trump\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n

The court split 5-4 on the decision. Chief Justice John Roberts was among those who wouldn\u2019t have allowed the cuts, along with the court\u2019s three liberals. The high court did keep the Trump administration\u2019s anti-DEI directive blocked for future funding with a key vote from Justice Amy Coney Barrett, however. <\/p>\n

The decision marks the latest Supreme Court win for Trump and allows the administration to forge ahead with canceling hundreds of grants while the lawsuit continues to unfold. The plaintiffs say the decision is a \u201csignificant setback for public health,\u201d but keeping the directive blocked means the administration can\u2019t use it to cut more studies.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department, meanwhile, has said funding decisions should not be \u201csubject to judicial second-guessing\u201d and efforts to promote policies referred to as DEI can \u201cconceal insidious racial discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit addresses only part of the estimated $12 billion of NIH research projects<\/a> that have been cut, but in its emergency appeal, the Trump administration also took aim at nearly two dozen other times judges have stood in the way of its funding cuts. <\/p>\n

Solicitor General D. John Sauer said judges shouldn\u2019t be considering those cases under an earlier Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for teacher-training program cuts that the administration also linked to DEI. He says they should go to federal claims court instead. <\/p>\n

Five conservative justices agreed, and Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a short opinion in which he criticized lower-court judges for not adhering to earlier high court orders. \u201cAll these interventions should have been unnecessary,\u201d Gorsuch wrote.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs, 16 Democratic state attorneys general and public-health advocacy groups, had unsuccessfully argued that research grants<\/a> are fundamentally different from the teacher-training contracts and couldn\u2019t be sent to the claims court. <\/p>\n

They said that defunding studies midway through halts research, ruins data already collected and ultimately harms the country\u2019s potential for scientific breakthroughs by disrupting scientists\u2019 work in the middle of their careers. <\/p>\n

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a lengthy dissent in which she criticized both the outcome and her colleagues\u2019 willingness to continue allowing the administration to use the court\u2019s emergency appeals process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins,\u201d she wrote, referring to the fictional game in the comic strip \u201cCalvin and Hobbes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts had ruled that the cancellations were arbitrary and discriminatory<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,\u201d Young, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, said at a hearing. He later added: \u201cHave we no shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

An appeals court had left Young\u2019s ruling in place.<\/p>\n

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