Groups ask justices to leave order in place requiring Trump administration to fund studies linked to DEI initiatives

Groups ask justices to leave order in place requiring Trump administration to fund studies linked to DEI initiatives

Updated on August 1 at 8:50 pm. Two groups of plaintiffs seeking to stop the National Institutes of Health from terminating $783 million in grants urged the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that requires the federal government to continue making the grant payments. Lawyers for a group of 16 states, led by Massachusetts, told the justices that the termination of the grants “caused un…