Rhode Island Latino Arts and three other arts organizations won a ruling against the Trump Administration on Friday when a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that a policy from the National Endowment for the Arts violates the First Amendment and other federal laws.

The policy would have allowed the NEA to disfavor grant applications based partly on whether the applicants promoted so-called “gender ideology.” But the law that created the NEA says that grants must be awarded based on talent and not the artists’ viewpoint, Judge William E. Smith, a district judge who was appointed by President George W. Bush, ruled.

Rhode Island Latino Arts was one of four organizations from across the country that were part of the lawsuit brought by the ACLU. Executive director Marta Martinez says that th

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