Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push

US Supreme Court upholds termination of DEI grants from NIH

The US Supreme Court on Thursday released its opinion regarding the application for stay in the dispute between the National Institute of Health (NIH) v. American Public Health Association (APHA), et al. In a 5-4 vote, the justices paused the lower court’s order, which required the government agency to continue making the grant payments. An executive order signed by President Donald Trump at the beginning of his term, entitled “Ending Radical an…

In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged

Despite claims, there’s no evidence of widespread racial discrimination against white people. (Sebastian Gorczowski/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Two big assumptions underlie President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The first is that discrimination against people of color is a thing of the past. The second is that DEI policies and practices discriminate against white people — especially white men — in what’s somet…

Supreme Court backs Trump admin in cutting grants to DEI-linked initiatives with 5-4 ruling

The Supreme Court allowed the National Institutes of Health to terminate $783 million in grants linked to DEI initiatives

Targeting research: On the silencing of independent research voices

The silencing of the institutions that provide evidence-based analysis, by subjecting them to administrative harassment and funding restrictions, serves neither good governance nor national interest

Another Day, Another Supreme Court Power Grab That Will Kill People

Justice takes a dump. "US Supreme Court" by zacklur is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.On Thursday, by a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled in NIH v. Public Health Association et al. that the regime can terminate $783 million in grants for lifesaving research at the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world. Congress had voted to fund the grants, but aft…

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Cut DEI Research at NIH

(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday. The split court lifted...