Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

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20. Not sure I'd call this particular judge stupid

Jia M. Cobb is a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. She was born in 1980 in Springfield, Ohio. Cobb graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University in 2002 and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2005, where she was coordinating editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Her early legal career included clerking for Judge Diane Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She then worked as a trial attorney with the District of Columbia Public Defender Service from 2006 to 2012, later joining the civil rights law firm Relman Colfax, where she became a partner. Cobb also taught law at both the Washington College of Law and Harvard Law School.

President Joe Biden nominated her to the federal bench in June 2021, and she was confirmed by the Senate in October 2021, succeeding Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. She assumed her commission in November 2021. Cobb is recognized for her extensive background in both criminal defense and civil rights law.

I suspect it's probably a legally sound opinion, even if we don't like it

It is also thankfully (I think) not the final word on the subject, she simply declined to issue an immediate injunction, if I understand how these things work at all (which I might not )