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Friday, April 25, 2025

Blocked: Federal Judge in New Hampshire Issues Injunction on Trump Effort to End DEI

WMUR New Hampshire: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools. The ruling, made in federal court in New Hampshire, came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the Republican administration of violating teachers’ due process and First Amendment rights (WMUR). Mike Davis: Let’s get this straight: Biden can setup DEI (illegal racial discrimination). But Trump can’t end it. Congress must start cutting the federal judiciary’s budget and power (X).

Blocked: Federal Judge in California Issues Injunction on Trump Administration Effort to Cut Funding to “Sanctuary Cities”

Stephen Miller: Judicial coup continues (X). Jeff Charles: A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration from cutting federal funding to “sanctuary” cities. US District Judge William Orrick on Thursday issued an injunction against the White House after San Francisco and other cities that shield illegal immigrants from deportation filed a lawsuit (Townhall.com). Obama-appointed Federal Judge William Orrick: “The Cities and Counties have also demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm. The threat to withhold funding causes them irreparable injury in the form of budgetary uncertainty, deprivation of constitutional rights, and undermining trust between the Cities and Counties and the communities they serve (X).”

Blocked: Federal Judge in D.C. Issues Opinion Halting Trump’s Efforts for Proof of Citizenship in Voting

Katie Pavlich: This. Is. Insane. (X) ABC News: In a 120-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked the Trump administration from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and ordering that election officials “assess” the citizenship of anyone who receives public assistance before allowing them to register. She also barred the Election Assistance Commission from withholding federal funding from states that did not comply with the order. “Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States—not the President—with the authority to regulate federal elections,” she wrote. “No statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order” (ABC).

Tom Cotton: Supreme Court Needs to Rein in “Rogue Federal Judges”

ABC News Senator: Tom Cotton of Arkansas has expressed frustration with what he describes as “rogue federal judges” interfering with executive orders. During an appearance on FOX News’ “Life, Liberty and Levin,” Cotton said, “The Supreme Court needs to take steps to rein in these rogue federal judges that want to be policy makers as opposed to neutral jurists” (ABC). Giancarlo Canaparo of Heritage: The best way to end nationwide injunctions for good is for the Supreme Court to take an appropriate case and hold that these injunctions are neither authorized by law nor contemplated by Article III of the Constitution (AnchoringTruths).

School Choice Bill in Texas Passes in the House

It already passed in their state Senate. Governor Abbott is prepared to sign it. Fox 4: School choice legislation is officially headed to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk. The Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 2 by a party-line 19-12 vote on Thursday, despite a last-ditch effort to derail, or at least delay, the bill’s final passage. “School choice has come to Texas,” said Lt. Gov. Patrick after the bill’s passage. Last Thursday, the House approved the bill 86-63. Governor Greg Abbott, who has called school choice his top priority, is expected to sign the bill (Fox4). ABC: The program in its first year would be capped at $1 billion and used by up to 90,000 students, but it could grow to nearly $4.5 billion per year by 2030. The money can be used for private school tuition or costs for home-schooling and virtual learning programs. Families could get up to $10,000 each year per student under the program, and a student with disabilities would be eligible for as much as $30,000 per year (ABC).

Pennsylvania Sen. Fetterman (D) Messaging Strong on Iran

Ed Morrissey: Second Third Fourth Fifth look at John Fetterman? The Senate Democrat from Pennsylvania sounds tougher on Iran than many of the Senate Republicans, and possibly tougher than Donald Trump himself (Hot Air). Jon Levine: Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) says the Trump administration should drop nuclear negotiations with Iran and finish off the country’s nuclear facilities with a military strike. “Waste that s—t,” the Pennsylvania Democrat told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview on Wednesday. “You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities” (Free Beacon).

Latest Executive Order From Trump: Seeking to Eliminate Use of Disparate-Impact Liability

“To the maximum degree possible.” Charles Murray: It’s hard to exaggerate the harm done to the American Experiment by the disparate impact doctrine. Its logic was empirically indefensible. Its implementation was mindless. Overturning it could be one of the most important accomplishments of the second Trump term (X). From the order: On a practical level, disparate-impact liability has hindered businesses from making hiring and other employment decisions based on merit and skill, their needs, or the needs of their customers because of the specter that such a process might lead to disparate outcomes, and thus disparate-impact lawsuits. This has made it difficult, and in some cases impossible, for employers to use bona fide job-oriented evaluations when recruiting, which prevents job seekers from being paired with jobs to which their skills are most suited — in other words, it deprives them of opportunities for success (White House).

Harvard Has Become an Outpost of Islamism

And now they’ll be trying to defend their treatment of Jews before the nation’s highest court. Hugh Hewitt: Harvard is going to have to argue in federal court —one way or another— that the courts pay no attention to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that sits behind the curtain over there outside of the court’s view. Similarly, Harvard is going to have to argue the Supreme Court precedents of Bob Jones University v. U.S. (1983) and Students for Fair Admission v Harvard (2023), which are also back there behind the drapes, are similarly not properly before the courts…. Harvard has an unbroken record of ignoring the nation’s keystone anti-discrimination statute for years and years with regard to at least Asian American applicants before the horrific massacre of 10/7 and by tolerating anti-Semitism since then (FoxNews). Ruth Wisse: Oct. 7, like Kristallnacht in 1938, forced some people to confront what they had tried to ignore. Students and faculty celebrating the atrocities against Israel could have been perpetrating them, given the chance. A committee of the new Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance investigated the campus “hatred” and found it “worse than we had anticipated” (WSJ).

Hundreds of “Misinformation” Grants at National Science Foundation Terminated

Mike Benz: This is one of the things I’m most proud of in my entire life. Wins keep coming, full steam ahead (X). Dan Frieth with Reclaim the Net: A large wave of funding cancellations from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has abruptly derailed hundreds of research projects, many of which were focused on so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Late Friday, researchers across the country received emails notifying them that their grants, fellowships, or awards had been rescinded; an action that stunned many in the academic community and ignited conversations about the role of the government in regulating research into online speech. Among those impacted was Kate Starbird, a prominent figure in the “disinformation” research sphere and former Director of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (Reclaim the Net).

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California High School Student Pleads to Have Only Women in Women’s Locker Room

The emotional testimony cut short by an administrator saying, “Okay, please, wrap it up.” Fox News: A school board meeting in California featured emotional debate over transgender athletes being allowed to share locker rooms with high-school girls. One girl who cried during a speech was told to “wrap it up” by the board president. During the Lucia Mar Unified School District (LMUSD) board meeting on Wednesday, a high-school junior girls’ track athlete at Arroyo Grande High School named Celeste Diest took the podium to recount her experience of having to change in front of a biologically male trans athlete before practice, while that athlete allegedly watched her undress (Fox News). The testimony: (X).

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