The Supremes made another emergency ruling today in a case in which NIH grant recipients had sued to reverse Trump’s rescission of research grants that he determined were “DEI.” (You know, the ones that had the word “woman” in them.) The majority found that they had filed the suit in the wrong court so they will have to start over. But a different majority (which included Roberts and Barrett) held that the directives are likely unlawful.
It will take forever to get through the courts and back up to the high court but it does appear that a majority is not ready to allow Trump to completely destroy bio-research based on stupid MAGA influencer garbage. For now anyway. Of course, by the time it wends its way back there all the research will be gone as will many of the researchers and scientists. But at least there’s some slight hope that they aren’t ready to officially turn the Mad King’s rally ramblings into a permanent imperial power.