Posted on 08/21/2025 4:00:24 PM PDT by CFW
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives.
The decision partially lifts a Boston-based judge’s ruling that declared the cancellations illegal and blocked the administration from moving forward.
Five of the court’s six Republican-appointed justices sided with the administration: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
They said the judge wasn’t following the high court’s emergency decision this spring allowing the administration to cancel education grants. Gorsuch was the most pointed in his criticism, accusing the judge and several others of defying the high court.
“Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” Gorsuch wrote.
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“ALLOWS?”
So Roberts was fine with a lower court spitting in the face if the SC.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS, with whom JUSTICE
SOTOMAYOR, JUSTICE KAGAN, and JUSTICE JACKSON join,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Dissent here:https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a103_kh7p.pdf#page=7
Jackson wrote a separate concurrence in part and a dissent.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a103_kh7p.pdf#page=16
“So Roberts was fine with a lower court spitting in the face if the SC.”
Not normally. No. But, the “Trump exception” to normal order and legal precedent applies here.
“”“ALLOWS?”””
It’s so nice that the Supreme Court ALLOWS him to do the job we elected him to do.
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“allows”? “Allows”?!
How about confirms that the Chief Executive is the authority on these matters. The Supreme Court in this matter does not “allow”, it rules on the law.
Exactly. Robert’s hatred for Trump is always part of the calculous.
Even SCOTUS justices can suffer from TDS.
I’m not sure if there will ever be another mental disorder to match it.
Of course for some, their TDS is due to a fear of their own crimes and depravity being revealed.
History will not be kind to Roberts.
He will be remembered as an historic embarrassment to the Supreme Court.
Roberts has turned out to be a complete traitor.
“The Hill” is mostly leftist spiital, but here I love their headline: “. . . allows Trump to gut DEI . . . .” I love the way that sounds so visceral.
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