Supreme Court hands huge victory to Trump over DEI funding — John Roberts sides with liberal justices

The Trump administration racked up another massive victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, but without the help of Chief Justice John Roberts.

Roberts sided with the liberal-leaning justices in the dissent against the rest of the court in the split 5-4 decision. The administration successfully overturned a lower court order that blocked the defunding of $783 million from the National Institutes of Health.

'Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.'

The ruling affects only a part of the estimated $12 billion in cuts to the NIH.

The Trump administration argued that the NIH studies into diseases in minority, gay, and transgender communities were unscientific, were not an effective use of taxpayer money, and w