Posted on 06/09/2025 12:48:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said Monday that the federal government cannot force recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive grant funding. The order will remain in effect while the legal case continues, although government lawyers will likely appeal.
The funding provisions “reflect an effort to censor constitutionally protected speech and services promoting DEI and recognizing the existence of transgender individuals,” Tigar wrote.
He went on to say that the executive branch must still be bound by the Constitution in shaping its agenda and that even in the context of federal subsidies, “it cannot weaponize Congressionally appropriated funds to single out protected communities for disfavored treatment or suppress ideas that it does not like or has deemed dangerous.”
The plaintiffs include health centers, LGBTQ+ services groups and the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society. All receive federal funding and say they cannot complete their missions by following the president’s executive orders.
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Tar.
Feathers.
Federal judge.
Some assembly required.
WOW! A judge in San Fran did this.
What are the odds he/she/it is homosexual?
There’s a recission bill in the pipeline that will end all DEI … I can wait another 45 days …
A Barack Hussein Obama appointee.
Gee, who woulda’ guessed?
Tigar was chosen for this case
Look up him and his family
Ever notice that Biden’s EO’s are etched in stone, but Trump can’t undo them with his own EO’s?
On June 11, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Tigar to be a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Well, hell. Knock me down with a feather.
Democrats have a lawyer army. These judges are their officers.
This is war.
That is because the rats have the fortitude to drive an EO while the weak GOpee are vacant of such determination.
Trump needs to force the courts to uphold their rulings.
Maybe da judge is a homo.
Tell me again why are we paying Congre$$ and the Supreme Clowns of the US for sitting on their thumbs and letting the Judicial Branch usurp the Executive Branch’s power to govern?
The order does not block any action that may “acknowledge the existence of transgender people”. It blocks federal funds from assisting the one-sided approach to what is claimed to be “care” for transgender persons, and it blocks federal funds from being used in activities that assist in special bathroom, locker room, showering facilities that are done to impose persons of the opposite biological gender on either males or females that do not have gender dysphoria.
The order blocks funds from activities involving DEI because they violate the equal rights and equal protection laws by forcing reverse discrimination actions to achieve artificial DEI objectives, instead of being demographically blind and awarding merit in all ways.
Lol. Trump isn’t stopping DEI. He’s just stopping federal money for it. The Constitution does not mandate DEI programs anywhere. No one has a right to taxpayer money to promote perversion.
We have a Constitution? Quick, someone tell that to the federal judge elected himself / herself / itself President!
Judges are anti-oxygen.
And always...pro-child-killing.
Out of Obama tyranny
Whisky Tango Funkstrot?
This garbage needs to end. NOW.
The judge is defying recent Supreme Court decisions.
However much we hate democrats it’s not enough.
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