The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court this week to intervene in a case brought by eight blue states over federal funding, marking one of the latest moves by the White House to defend in court its efforts to curb diversity, equity, and inclusion.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice told the high court a lower court was “predictably impeding the Executive Branch’s constitutional functions” after the president “made a judgment to terminate [DEI]-related grants.”
The DOJ’s request came after a federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked the administration from canceling about $250 million in grants to the eight states and after the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the order.
While Trump has not seen success in that case, which centers around Department of Education grant money and is still in an early stage, the president has seen partial success in a couple of the other roughly a…
