Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

Photo credit: Elvert Barnes Protest Photography via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by John Timmer. Ars Technica – July 3, 2025.

In mid-June, a federal judge issued a stinging rebuke to the Trump administration, declaring that its decision to cancel the funding for many grants issued by the National Institutes of Health was illegal, and suggesting that the policy was likely animated by racism. But the detailed reasoning behind his decision wasn’t released at the time. The written portion of the decision was finally issued on Wednesday, and it has a number of notable features. […]

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