The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned by a 5-4 decision a lower court order, deciding at least temporarily, that the National Institute of Health does not need to continue paying out approximately $783 million in research grants to projects that the institute has since-stopped funding.

But the court, in its emergency docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the court's conservatives save Chief Justice John Roberts who sided with the court's three liberals.

In February, the NIH, the "largest public funder of biomedical research in the world," began terminating federal grants en masse for projects that did not "align with" the Trump administration's pol

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