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President Donald Trump is declaring victory after an appeals court threw out the massive civil fraud penalty against him.
The plaintiffs, including states and public-health advocacy groups, have argued that the cuts will inflict “incalculable losses in public health and human life.”
Justice Jackson ripped the high court for “Calvinball jurisprudence” in a fractured NIH grants ruling, accusing colleagues of favoring Trump at the expense of science.
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Al Jazeera on MSNUS Supreme Court rules Trump admin can cut nearly $800m in health funding
The highest court in the US has ruled that the Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding on breast cancer, HIV prevention and suicide, among other issues, in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts.
Trump claimed a legal victory after a court threw out a multimillion-dollar civil fraud penalty he was facing. But he still has a number of other cases ongoing.
The Trump administration urged the justices to “stop errant district courts from continuing to disregard this Court’s rulings.”
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts