A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination. U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration's process was “arbitrary and capricious” and that it did not

The federal judge said the NIH violated federal law by arbitrarily canceling more than $1 billion in research grants because of their perceived connection to DEI initiatives.

A U.S. federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's termination of NIH diversity-related research funding was illegal and discriminatory. The court ordered the restoration of over $1 billion in DEI grants,