SCOTUS allows termination of DEI teaching grants

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the dissenting justices.

By Cristina Laila, Gateway Pundit – April 5, 2025

The U.S. 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 John Roberts sided with the liberal justices and would have denied President Donald Trump’s emergency application.

Liberal justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonis Sotomayor dissented.

The Department of Education argued that the grants violated President Trump’s executive order abolishing Marxist DEI policies.

Last month U.S. District Judge Myong Joun, a Biden appointee, issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the grants.

The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump DOJ’s request to stay the judge’s TRO pending appeal.

PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court building. |  a Jim Hoft photo