Supreme Court says Trump may cancel DEI-related health research grants
Washington – On Thursday, a divided Supreme Court said that Trump administration could cancel hundreds of health research grants, including diversity, equality and inclusion or gender identity.
Justice emergency appeal One of the lawyers of President Trump and a Boston, who prevented the cancellation of a $ 783 million research grant, put aside the judge’s order.
Justice divided 5-4. Chief Justice John G. Roberts joined the court’s three liberals and said he did not exceed the authority of the judge of the region.
The conservative majority of the court is repeatedly biased against the administration and federal judges in disagreements on expenditure and personnel in federal agencies.
In the latest case, he acknowledged that majority Trump and his appointments can decide how to spend health research funds allocated by the congress.
After starting to work in January, Trump ordered to execute the “radical and extravagant government programs to end and prefer”.
A few weeks later, the Director of the National Health Institutes, the director of the agency, said that the agency will no longer finance “low -valuable and non -duty research programs, including“ diversity, equality and incorporating (DEI) and gender identity, but not limited to them.
More than 1,700 grants were canceled.
Trump’s lawyers told the court that NIH ended the grants for the work of “Buddhism and HIV stigmatization in Thailand”; “Investigation for English and Spanish -speaking population, multi -level and multidimensional structural racism”; and “Transitional anti -racist recovery in nature to protect the telomers of Bipoc [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] For health equality. ”
California Atty. General Rob Bonda and his colleagues of 15 Democratic -led countries filed a lawsuit to stop what they call an unseen evening to ongoing research ”. Researcher groups and public health advocates attended them.
State lawyers, state universities, “Heart disease, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol and substance addiction, mental health problems and numerous other health conditions, using grants for projects,” he said.
For NIH’s study of California, inflammation, insulin resistance and physical activity examined alzheimer’s disease, higher proportions and a more aggressive profile in black women.
In addition, the incidence of this disease and mortality rates increasing population among the indigenous Hawai people among the people of the Hawai University, which aims to identify genetic and biological risk factors for colorectal cancer, he said.
In June, democratic state lawyers won a decision from the US regional judge William G. Young, who was appointed Reagan. He said that the sudden stopping of the research grants violated a federal law because of “arbitrary” and badly explained.
Trump said that agencies need to focus on eliminating everything he labeled as an unidentified enemy, “diversity, equality and inclusion (“ deı ”). He said he tried and what he tried and failed.
1. When the Circuit Court refused to remove the judge’s order, Trump’s lawyer Gen. D. John Sauer He applied to the Supreme Court At the end of July.
The authority said that the justice in April has made a similar decision from a Boston -based judge, which prevented the new administration from cancel the educational grants.
The lawyer argued that Trump’s order required a “ambitious government self -agenda” from President Biden in 2021 and instructed the federal agencies to “allocate resources in order to investigate historical failure, fair and equally”.
The authority said that the grants of the new administration did not do anything to expand our knowledge of living systems, that they do nothing to provide low return in investment, and that they do not improve health, that they do not extend life or reduce the disease ”.
