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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants<\/a>, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration’s process was \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d and that it did not follow long-held government rules and standards when it abruptly canceled grants deemed to focus on gender identity or diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a hearing Monday on two cases calling for the grants to be restored, the judge pushed government lawyers to offer a formal definition of DEI, questioning how grants could be canceled for that reason when some were designed to study health disparities as Congress had directed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, went on to address what he called \u201ca darker aspect\u201d to the cases, calling it \u201cpalpably clear\u201d that what was behind the government actions was \u201cracial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 40 years on the bench, \u201cI’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,\u201d Young added. He ended Monday’s hearing saying, \u201cHave we no shame.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his remarks ending the hearing, the judge said he would issue his written order soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young’s decision addresses only a fraction of the hundreds of NIH research projects the Trump administration has cut \u2014 those specifically addressed in two lawsuits filed separately this spring by 16 attorneys general, public health advocacy groups and some affected scientists. A full count wasn’t immediately available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Young said the funding must be restored, Monday’s action was an interim step as the ruling could be appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration is \u201cexploring all legal options\u201d including asking the judge to stay the ruling or appealing, said Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for NIH’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHHS stands by its decision to end funding for research that prioritized ideological agendas over scientific rigor and meaningful outcomes for the American people,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the original lawsuits didn’t specifically claim racial discrimination, they said the new NIH policies prohibited \u201cresearch into certain politically disfavored subjects.\u201d In a filing this month after the lawsuits were consolidated, lawyers said<\/a> the NIH did not highlight genuine concerns with the hundreds of canceled research projects studies, but instead sent \u201cboilerplate termination letters\u201d to universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topics of research ranged widely, including cardiovascular health, sexually transmitted infections, depression, Alzheimer’s and alcohol abuse in minors, among other things. Attorneys cited projects such as one tracking how medicines may work differently in people of ancestrally diverse backgrounds, and said the cuts affected more than scientists \u2014 such as potential harm to patients in a closed study of suicide treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawyers for the federal government said in a court filing earlier this month that NIH grant terminations for DEI studies were \u201csufficiently reasoned,” adding later that \u201cplaintiffs may disagree with NIH’s basis, but that does not make the basis arbitrary and capricious.\u201d The NIH, lawyers argued, has \u201cbroad discretion\u201d to decide on and provide grants \u201cin alignment with its priorities\u201d \u2014 which includes ending grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, Justice Department lawyer Thomas Ports Jr. pointed to 13 examples of grants related to minority health that NIH either hadn’t cut or had renewed in the same time period \u2014 and said some of the cancellations were justified by the agency’s judgement that the research wasn’t scientifically valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NIH has long been the world\u2019s largest public funder of biomedical research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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