A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from imposing “anti-DEI” conditions on grants sought by 11 cities and counties in California and Oregon from the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Interior, and FEMA.<\/p>\n
California-based U.S. District Judge William Orrick granted the municipalities a preliminary injunction<\/a>, holding that the administration’s bar on programs that advance diversity and equity violate Congress’ power to control federal spending and the government’s obligation to adequately define and explain any conditions attached to federal money.<\/p>\n The anti-DEI policies either “have nothing to do with or contradict” Congress’ intent in authorizing the grants, Orrick wrote, noting that federal law bars gender and race discrimination and that lawmakers often explicitly direct resources \u2014 such as money to combat human trafficking \u2014 toward women and other underserved communities.<\/p>\n “Plaintiffs maintain that ‘[n]othing in the Constitution or federal statutes authorizes Defendants to impose the Challenged Conditions, or anything of the kind, on funds administered through congressional grant programs,'” Orrick wrote. “I agree.”<\/p>\n The grants at issue in the case include funds for policing, anti-terrorism, immigration, disaster and fire relief efforts. The counties challenging the Trump administration include San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, joined by the cities of Fresno, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Santa Cruz, Beaverton, Corvallis, Hillsboro and Stockton.<\/p>\n Multiple<\/a> federal judges<\/a> have temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s sweeping anti-DEI grant conditions. A separate federal district judge in Seattle last week blocked similar conditions<\/a> on grants from the Departments of Transportation, HUD and other agencies in a lawsuit brought by Seattle, Cleveland, Columbia, Durham, Portland, and several counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from imposing “anti-DEI” conditions on grants sought by 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2672,7,9,8,11524,5782,158427,5243],"class_list":["post-393920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-administration","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-conditions","tag-federal-judge","tag-federal-spending","tag-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}