Emergency call
By Amy Howe
Mar 27 2025
11:33
The court has not yet called for an answer in Department of Education v. California. (Katie Barlow)
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning and asked the judges to put an order from a federal judge in Massachusetts, who demands that the Institute of Education reintroduce more than $ 65 million in educational grants intended to tackle teacher shortages that it completed in February because they financed programs that have diversity, equity and inclusion.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris Portrayed the Lawsuit, Which Was Filed in March by Eight States (California, Along with Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, And Wisconsin) As Part of A Broadade Problem – SPECIFICALLY, “A Flood of Recent Suits That Raise The Question: ‘Does’ Does A Single District-Court Judge Who Likely Lacks Jurisdiction Have The Unchecked Power to Compel The Government of the United States Pay (and Lose forever) Millions in Taxpayers Dollars?
The case centers on two subsidy programs for recruitment, education and professional development. At the beginning of February, the Institute for Education Canceled almost all grants – 104 out of 109 – because reviews found “critical” material relating to DEI in them.
The challenging states went to the Federal Court of Massachusetts in early March, claiming that universities and non -profit organizations in their states had received grants through the programs and that the termination of grants violated the federal law that ruled administrative agencies.
Following a hearing on March 10, US district judge Myong Joun issued a temporary order that demanded the government reintroduce the subsidies it had terminated in the states that brought the trial and he prevented the government from implementing other terminations in these states.
Joun explained that if he denied the temporary relief that the states sought, “dozens of programs, such as public schools, public universities, students, teachers and faculties are dependent on will be blurred.” But if, on the other hand, he gave the temporary relief, the department would simply have to “pay out funds assigned to the states and others.”
The UNIGINATION COURT of the United States for the 1st Circuit refused to put the order’s order on wait while the government appealed, but it agreed to fix the appeal itself.
Meanwhile, a federal court in Maryland has also ordered the Ministry of Education to reintroduce terminated grants in another trial.
In his request for the judges to block Joun’s order, Trump complained the administration that Joun had issued a temporary order “without awaiting information from the government or properly assuring his” authority to consider the matter. Then, it claimed that Joun had expanded his temporary order “for up to two weeks more, until” it manages the states’ request for a preliminary injunction which would reintroduce the grant indefinitely until Joun rules of the benefits of the state’s request, or it is overturned by a higher court.
Until the Supreme Court weighs in, claimed Harris, federal courts around the country will continue to act beyond their authority “by ordering the executive branch to restore legally terminated grants across the government, continue to pay for programs that the executive branch considers the incompatible with the interests of the United States, and issued the door taxable back. ” The judges, Harris, pleaded, “should put a rapid end of federal district courts’ constitutional reign as self -proclaimed leaders of executive branch financing and decisions on the award of grants.”
Nationwide orders have become a popular goal in recent weeks, especially among supporters of the president’s agenda. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-IOWA, announced on Wednesday that he would be chairman of a Senate Legal Committee Committee heard about nationwide orders next week. “The practice of sweeping nationwide injunctions, broad withholding orders and judicial decision making must end,” he said.
Harris also asked the court to issue an administrative stay that would put Joun’s order on wait while the judges are considering the government’s request.
This article was originally published on Howe on the field.
