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A splintered US Supreme Court let the Trump administration temporarily cut off potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in medical research grants that government officials say don't align with the president's policies. The justices partially put on hold a federal trial judge's decision that the National Institutes of Health acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it terminated thousands of grants as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Supreme Court Lets US Cut Millions of Dollars in NIH Grants
A splintered US Supreme Court let the Trump administration temporarily cut off potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in medical research grants that government officials say don't align with the president's policies.
The justices partially put on hold a federal trial judge's decision that the National Institutes of Health acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it terminated thousands of grants as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion.
The decision wasn't a total win for Trump. The Supreme Court kept in place US District Judge William Young's block on NIH guidance documents that bar funding for research connected to DEI, gender-identity, vaccine hesitancy, Covid or climate change.
But the court indicated on a 5-4 vote that the Boston-based judge lacked jurisdiction to order reinstatement of specific grants. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's three liberals in dissent on that issue.
The court left open the possibility that grant recipients could sue in a different federal court to recoup wrongfully withheld funds.
The challengers, which include research organizations and states whose universities rely on NIH funding, said the cutoff would set back crucial research by years, if not decades. The administration told the Supreme Court the NIH was being forced to keep paying out $783 million, though the private challengers called that a made-up figure.
The high court said the government would risk “irreparable harm” if it were forced to disburse the money before the litigation was resolved. “The plaintiffs do not state that they will repay grant money if the government ultimately prevails,” the court said.
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett each said in a separate opinion that claims over particular grants belong in the Court of Federal Claims, a specialized tribunal that handles cases involving contracts with the US government.
Barrett, the only justice who didn't partially dissent, was the pivotal vote in the case. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito all indicated they would have let the NIH guidance go back into effect.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, who led the state challengers, called the decision “wrong and deeply disappointing,” saying it would force funding recipients to “jump through more hoops” to get back wrongfully withheld funds.
Lawyers for the private challengers issued a joint statement saying the legal team “will work diligently to ensure that these unlawfully terminated grants continue to be restored.” The group said the part of Young's ruling that remains in force means that “NIH cannot terminate any research studies based on these unlawful directives.”
An NIH spokesperson said the agency was pleased with the ruling but was still reviewing the implications.
NIH officials used templated letters to notify recipients that funding was being withheld. The letters that cited DEI said such studies “are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans.”
In blocking the cutoff, Young said the NIH never defined the prohibited research categories and relied on circular reasoning in templated letters to explain why specific grants were being terminated. Young called the cutoff “breathtakingly arbitrary and capricious” in violation of the federal law that governs the procedural workings at federal agencies.
Administration officials “in their haste to appease the executive, simply moved too fast and broke things, including the law,” Young wrote.
The Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals voted 3-0 to keep Young's order in place, prompting the administration to turn to the Supreme Court.
The case is National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association, 25A103.
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