Judge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional
McMahon said DOGE used ChatGPT to flag thousands of humanities grants as DEI-related and ordered the terminations rescinded.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled the Department of Government Efficiency's mass cancellation of more than 1,400 NEH grants was "unlawful" and "unconstitutional," permanently barring the administration from enforcing the terminations.
- DOGE terminated the grants in April 2025, prompting The Authors Guild to sue, arguing the executive branch "has no constitutional authority" to block spending based on the president's policy preferences.
- Judge McMahon criticized the government's use of ChatGPT to identify "DEI" projects, noting the AI wrongly flagged an anthology titled "In the Shadow of the Holocaust" as a target for elimination.
- McMahon issued a permanent injunction ordering the rescission of termination notices, stating "Defendants are permanently enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to the Mass Termination" of NEH grants.
- The decision reaffirms Congress's 60-year commitment to the humanities, as McMahon wrote the public has a strong interest in ensuring federal officials act within the bounds set by the Constitution.
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Judge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional
The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.U.S.
Federal Judge Restores Millions in NEH Grants
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon found that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities was unconstitutional. In April 2025, NEH officials and staff from the Department of Government Efficiency canceled grants representing over $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds. The following month, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Associat…
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Judge rules Trump administration's cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional
A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administration's cancellation of over $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional.
DOGE's ChatGPT-driven mass grant purge deemed illegal in scathing order
A federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday, finding that the group's mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants was illegal — and that a key part of the process relied on ChatGPT.DOGE, partly the brainchild of tech bi...
Judge rules DOGE’s cuts to humanities grants were unconstitutional
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the U.S. DOGE Service did not have the authority to cancel National Endowment for the Humanities grants, which made up more than $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds.
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