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Posted on 05/08/2026 3:18:41 AM PDT by lowbridge
The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild, several other groups and several people who had their grants canceled and sued DOGE and the National Endowment for the Humanities. McMahon permanently barred the administration from terminating the grants and criticized DOGE’s use of artificial intelligence in nixing the funding.
Government lawyers had argued that the cuts of more than 1,400 grants of congressionally approved funds were legal moves to implement President Donald Trump’s directives, eliminate grants associated with diversion, equity and inclusion and reduce discretionary spending under the administration’s priorities.
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McMahon said the government violated the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection right, and DOGE did not have the lawful authority to cancel the grants. She wrote, for example, that it was “a textbook example of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination” when officials canceled the grants based on DEI.
“The public interest favors permanent relief,” McMahon wrote in her ruling. “The public has a strong interest in ensuring that federal officials act within the bounds set by Congress and the Constitution.”
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“This ruling in an important achievement in our effort to restore the NEH’s ability to fulfill the vital mission with which Congress charged it: helping to create and sustain ‘a climate encouraging freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry’ through the humanities,” said Sarah Weicksel, executive director of the American Historical Association.
Yinka Ezekiel Onayemi, an attorney for the Authors Guild, called the grant cancellations “a direct assault on constitutional free speech and equal protection.”
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How does it impede the right to free speech?
“How does it impede the right to free speech?”
That’s easy. Nobody will talk about it unless they get paid to do so.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon ?
Probably was named Colen at birth .
WTH does the national endowment whatever for humanities accomplish?
“federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.”
No doubt going to higher court, perhaps it will find its way up to SCOTUS someday and get overturned on the way. Any way to slap the Uniparty in Congress is most welcome, it is they who are responsible for putting us $40 trillion in the hole for which we cannot escape.
Cowboy poetry? Drag, queer and racist stuff the left loves?
“Interesting, isn’t it, how many executive branch actions have been deemed illegal or unconstitutional by the courts only since President Trump was sworn into office?”
Money laundering schemes.
As private citizens the grantees can hold any views they want without government interference. Their Constitutional rights protect that.
As recipients of funds from the government the government is free to make rules, including viewpoint rules, relative to eligibility for the governments grants.
“unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination” ???
And, THAT is now a legal consideration? How positively subjective!
thank you judge Colleen. Girlpower!! I bet she can roundhouse kick 200-pound men in high heels.
Remember there are three branches of government: judicial, judicial and judicial. All spending is controlled by the judicial branch.
“Yinka Ezekiel Onayemi”
Any chance we can get some NOT-foreign judges in America? People who don’t hate America?
Reverse lawfare at work. /sarcasm
I must have missed the part of the Constitution that enumerates the “right to humanities grants” funded by the taxpayers.
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I must have missed the part of the Constitution that enumerates the “right to humanities grants” funded by the taxpayers.
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‘Oddly’, these “judges” never get to A1S8, 9th/10th, nor even GANDER @ the 5th’s “..., nor be deprived of...property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” (income/$ == private property, let alone ‘grants’ == for public use)
Judge wouldn’t know the Constitution if it bit her on the as*.
Where in the Constitution does it say that non-governmental entities have a right to keep their hands in the US Treasury?............
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