An activist federal judge in Boston has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration could not make cuts to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) far-left research grants.
U.S. District Judge William Young said that eliminating research grants for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) is “void and illegal,” NBC News reported.
The judge believes that the administration had no authority to cancel the $1 billion in federal research grants.
The remedy was to reinstate the grants, which will be returned to the plaintiffs, including organizations and Democrat-led states that initiated the lawsuit.
“This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” Young falsely claimed.
“Any discrimination by our government is so wrong that it requires the court to enjoin it, and at an appropriate time, I’m going to do it.”
Young’s decision had blindsided Trump because the judge is an appointee of President Ronald Reagan.
He said that he had “never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable” in his 40 years on the bench.
“You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” the judge inaccurately alleged.
“The Constitution will not permit that.”
Trump and his administration have fought against racist DEI initiatives precisely because they favor some groups over others in a “reverse discrimination.”
However, Young asserts that objecting to grants that particularly focus on DEI subjects is the source of injustice.
According to Fox News, White House Spokesman Kush Desai believes Young was ruling from his own political viewpoint.
“It is appalling that a federal judge would use court proceedings to express his political views and preferences,” Desai said in a statement to Fox News.
“How is a judge going to deliver an impartial decision when he explicitly stated his biased opinion that the Administration’s retraction of illegal DEI funding is racist and anti-LGBTQ?
“Justice ceases to be administered when a judge clearly rules on the basis of his political ideologies,” Desai charged.
Of course, the administration will not take this lying down.
HHS Communications Director Andrew Nixon said in a statement that the agency “is exploring all legal options, including filing an appeal and moving to stay the order” in the future.
“HHS stands by its decision to end funding for research that prioritized ideological agendas over scientific rigor and meaningful outcomes for the American people,” Nixon said.
He added that the agency is “committed to ensuring that taxpayer dollars support programs rooted in evidence-based practices and gold standard science, not driven by divisive DEI mandates or gender ideology.”
Trump took on the broader issue of DEI in just about every corner of the government as part of his promised second-term agenda.
The president set to work on his first day in office to dismantle DEI, as evidenced by a White House action on January 20.
As the release noted, “nearly every Federal agency and entity submitted ‘Equity Action Plans’ to detail the ways that they have furthered DEI’s infiltration of the Federal Government” under then-President Joe Biden.
The Trump administration called this “immense public waste and shameful discrimination,” the declaration said.
“That ends today,” the White House added.
“Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.”
Trump is committed to ensuring that there is no preferential treatment in the distribution of money or resources in the United States.
He has been accused of being the one perpetuating discrimination when really, he’s the one reversing it by dispensing with these divisive policies.
There’s no reason any group should receive anything over another simply by virtue of some arbitrarily chosen characteristics of that group.
Young was wrong to blame Trump, but this speaks to a sickness in government brought on by wokeism.
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