On May 22, 2025, a federal judge, William Young, found President Trump's cuts to the National Institutes of Health unlawful and racially discriminatory. The ruling emphasizes that these DEI-driven health cuts aimed to impede research crucial for the health of marginalized groups, particularly the LGBTQ community. Young expressed strong condemnation of the cuts, highlighting their direct impact on health research. This unprecedented ruling highlighted a long-standing battle against discrimination in government practices and underlined constitutional duties to call out such injustices.
It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health - the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That's appalling.
I've never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I've sat on this bench now for 40 years.
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