The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court order requiring the reinstatement of federal research grants that had been terminated earlier this year due to broad policy directives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
The Trump administration has stripped federal research funding from university departments critical of the administration, DEI offices have been shuttered, and public universities are being forced to comply with “patriotic education” mandates, while the National Science Foundation is overseen by appointees with ideological litmus tests, and ICE and military units have been mobilized to create detention centers that look increasingly like mass deportation camps.
The headline from a trade publication was: “US has now canceled about one in 10 active federal…