That judge is cynical and stupid.
Government funding non profits IS conflict of interest and illegal subsidy of non profit speech over the people, an establishment of religion.
I’d be hard pressed to see this go to the Supreme court to then allow making the funding of Pp or ACLU illegal.
Don’t forget tall of the environmental legal firms that get paid to sue the US. The feds use them to help write regulations and then allow them to sue based upon the regs they helped write.
Talk about insane...