Trump's NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show

[Nevilledog]

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants


For more than two months, the Trump administration has been subject to a federal court order stopping it from cutting funding related to gender identity and the provision of gender-affirming care in response to President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

Lawyers for the federal government have repeatedly claimed in court filings that the administration has been complying with the order.

But new whistleblower records submitted in a lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general appear to contradict the claim.

Nearly two weeks after the court’s preliminary injunction was issued, the National Institutes of Health’s then-acting head, Dr. Matthew J. Memoli, drafted a memo that details how the agency, in response to Trump’s executive orders, cut funding for research grants that “promote or inculcate gender ideology.” An internal spreadsheet of terminated NIH grants also references “gender ideology” and lists the number associated with Trump’s executive order as the reason for the termination of more than a half dozen research grants.

The Washington attorney general’s allegation that the Trump administration violated a court order comes as the country lurches toward a constitutional crisis amid accusations that the executive branch has defied or ignored court orders in several other cases. In the most high-profile case so far, the administration has yet to comply with a federal judge’s order, upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, requiring it to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March.

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[Walleye]

1. If Democrats win the midterms, the list of the articles of impeachment will be pages long

[FirstLight]

2. So, let me get this right

And they're blatantly ignoring court orders even supreme court orders, and..? So, they file another fucking legal battle?

How the hell do we, as a people, see the enforcement of any of this? Continued litigation doesn't do anything for those suffering. If they were court ordered to stop their bullshit, then the courts should be *enforcing* that they stop their bullshit....

How is that implemented? I mean I know there's Federal Marshals, but I have no idea how that works