The US Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote on Friday sided with the Trump Administration and blocked a Massachusetts judge’s order requiring it to reinstate $250 million in Department of Education DEI training to eight states.
In an unsigned order, Chief Justice Roberts sided with the liberal justices and would have denied Trump’s emergency application.
Liberal justices Kagan, Jackson and Sotomayor dissented.
BREAKING: A 5-4 Supreme Court *grants* the Trump administration’s emergency request to stay a Massachusetts court order requiring it to reinstate $250 million in Department of Education teacher training grants to eight states.
Roberts & liberals dissenthttps://t.co/TXun2QPChc pic.twitter.com/9BUP5Lou59— Katie Buehler (@bykatiebuehler) April 4, 2025
The Department of Education argued that the grants violated President Trump’s executive order abolishing Marxist DEI policies.
Last month US District Judge Myong Joun, a Biden appointee, issued a TRO and ordered the Trump Administration to reinstate the grants.
NBC News reported:
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to terminate Education Department grants for teacher training that officials deemed to violate their new policy opposing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The 5-4 decision blocks a Massachusetts-based judge’s ruling that said the administration had failed to follow the correct legal process in terminating the grants. About $65 million in grant payments are outstanding.
The decision is the first win for President Donald Trump at the Supreme Court in his second term.
Five of the court’s conservatives were in the majority, while Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberals in dissent.
