Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health grants it says advance DEI or 'gender ideology extremism'

[In It to Win It]

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to cut off health research grants it contends advance diversity, equity and inclusion efforts or promote “gender ideology extremism.”

By a 5-4 vote, the justices lifted an order a federal court judge in Boston issued forcing the National Institutes of Health to restore funding for more than 1,700 grants focused on heart disease, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol and substance abuse and mental health issues.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/supreme-court-nih-funding-grants-00518782

[Lovie777]

1. Why I'm I paying federal taxas.....................

[Irish_Dem]

2. The US Supreme Court hates Americans.

Always rules against ordinary Americans.
In favor of the white male elite.

[Celerity]

9. TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying

directives are unlawful.

That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful.

That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-08-21T20:49:33.076Z

[Nevilledog]

3. Steve Vladeck has the actual ruling. Not a Trump win

Link to tweet

[a kennedy]

5. OMGAWD, I LOVE THIS MAN.......makes decisions seem so simple....

Gonna be following him from now on. Has such a easy manner for understanding complex Supreme Court rulings.

[Nevilledog]

6. He's my go to guy for SCOTUS opinions

[In It to Win It]

8. For me, it's him, Josh Gerstein, Chris Giedner, and the ladies of the Strict Scrutiny podcast

They make my life a lot easier when I don't have to search for opinions, and they get the news out almost immediately.

ETA: Forgot Kyle Cheney as well

[Nevilledog]

11. Gerstein got this one wrong

Link to tweet

NEW: Justice Amy Coney Barrett is swing vote as #SCOTUS lets Trump admin cut off $783 million in NIH grants deemed tainted by DEI or gender ideology. Another 🔥 partial dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who says high court's playing Calvinball

Perhaps "technically" accurate, but zero actual legal analysis.

[In It to Win It]

12. POLITICO tends to release a couple summary lines, and edit it later with more substantive detail.

It looks like some of those substantive details, like what Prof. Vladeck mentioned, are in the article now.

My guess that they want to be "first" with the headline.

[In It to Win It]

7. Give Trump a foot, he takes a mile.

It's a slight win in the immediate term, which Trump tends to take full advantage of the half-wins in the immediate term.

[Cha]

10. Wow.. TY for this, Nevilledog!

Roberts and Barrett are gonna be in trouble.

[Initech]

4. I have no doubt that Charlie Kirk had something to do with this.

That shitbag needs a one way ticket to Mars on a Space X rocket now.