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"Earlier this week, a federal judge in Boston explicitly called out the Trump administration for its “palpably clear” discrimination against racial minorities and LGBTQ+ Americans in a case involving canceled grants from the National Institutes of Health. ...In executive orders signed during his first weeks in office, he (Trump) targeted “Illegal DEI and DEIA policies,” claiming that they violate civil rights laws. He declared that “it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,” and branded “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex” as discriminatory against women and girls
...Judge Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan in 1985, called the terminations “arbitrary and capricious.” But he went further than other judges in the many impoundment suits, calling the administration out for its flagrant animus against racial and sexual minorities. “I am hesitant to draw this conclusion — but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it — that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” he said, according to Politico. “That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.“
...DOJ lawyer Thomas Ports Jr. countered by echoing NIH’s boilerplate termination notices. “Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore rather than seriously examine biological realities,” he said. ”It is an improvement to eliminate these.”
“Where’s the support for that?” Judge Young shot back. “I see no evidence of that.” ...Ports wasn’t even able to define “DEI” when pressed by the court. “You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” the judge hammered on. “The Constitution will not permit that.”"
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Yup. And a Reagan appointed judge, no less.
...Judge Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan in 1985, called the terminations “arbitrary and capricious.” But he went further than other judges in the many impoundment suits, calling the administration out for its flagrant animus against racial and sexual minorities. “I am hesitant to draw this conclusion — but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it — that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” he said, according to Politico. “That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.“
...DOJ lawyer Thomas Ports Jr. countered by echoing NIH’s boilerplate termination notices. “Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore rather than seriously examine biological realities,” he said. ”It is an improvement to eliminate these.”
“Where’s the support for that?” Judge Young shot back. “I see no evidence of that.” ...Ports wasn’t even able to define “DEI” when pressed by the court. “You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” the judge hammered on. “The Constitution will not permit that.”"
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Yup. And a Reagan appointed judge, no less.
