A Small Win In A Large Battle

We won a small skirmish in the larger battle for our human rights, with all the madness coming out of California now, this got buried in the news...

Judge blocks administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders

AP News

By  JANIE HAR

June 9, 2025

A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said Monday that the federal government cannot force recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive grant funding. The order will remain in effect while the legal case continues, although government lawyers will likely appeal.

The funding provisions “reflect an effort to censor constitutionally protected speech and services promoting DEI and recognizing the existence of transgender individuals,” Tigar wrote.

It is almost impossible to keep up with all the EO and all the court orders blocking them!

HR Drive reported...

The executive branch “cannot weaponize Congressionally appropriated funds to single out protected communities,” a U.S. district court judge wrote.

He got that right! The judge went on to say;

“While the Executive requires some degree of freedom to implement its political agenda, it is still bound by the Constitution,” Tigar wrote. “And even in the context of federal subsidies, it cannot weaponize Congressionally appropriated funds to single out protected communities for disfavored treatment or suppress ideas that it does not like or has deemed dangerous.”

The courts have been saying, "Not so fast!" and have been going after Trump's anti-DEI woke policies.

Federal Judge Says He Will Block Trump’s Attempt to Defund ‘Woke’

“I’m worried about the effect to the people,” said the federal judge about disruptions to federal grants that sent shock waves across the country.

The New York Times

By Mattathias Schwartz

January 29, 2025

A federal judge in the District of Rhode Island on Wednesday said he would soon issue a temporary restraining order to block Trump administration executive orders that could defund federal programs that do not align with President Trump’s ideological agenda.

Before the hearing, the Trump administration had rescinded a memo from the White House budget office that ordered a freeze on as much as $3 trillion in federal funds. That memo had already been blocked through Monday by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

But in Rhode Island, Judge John McConnell Jr. indicated he was not satisfied, siding with lawyers for 22 states and the District of Columbia who filed the suit, which claimed that the harm caused by Mr. Trump’s defunding efforts was continuing.

“I’m worried about the effect to the people that the states represent,” Judge McConnell said, citing declarations from state officials that reported on billions of dollars being jeopardized and states locked out of systems that provide reimbursements for Medicaid and other government programs. An official from New Mexico said the state would run out of cash in five months if the funding freeze continued.

Trump is losing in court, it is only a matter of time before a clash between the courts and Trump comes to a head over his pogrom against us.