Judge blocks administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders
Source: NBC
SAN FRANCISCO — 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."
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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump's "anti-DEI" and anti-trans funding orders, as applied to organizations that sued in a case led by San Francisco AIDS Foundation and filed in federal court in San Francisco.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T22:36:51.254Z
Judge Jon Tigar (Obama)'s opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
