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In the latest legal loss for the Trump administration, a federal judge on Monday evening ordered executive officials to restore grants they terminated to the University of California.

The ruling, from Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California, was flagged on X by Politico's Kyle Cheney.

The grants were terminated on the basis of the research including topics and keywords blacklisted by the Trump administration, primarily work involving diversity, equity and inclusion. Among the canceled grants were for a study that looked into how wildfire smoke disproportionately harms communities of color.

This is almost certainly unlawful, wrote Lin, an appointee of former President Joe Biden.

"Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claims that the termination of grants for research involving blacklisted topics like 'diversity' and 'equity' violates the First Amendment and runs contrary to Congress’s specific directives to support research concerning — and foster greater involvement in the sciences of — underrepresented groups," wrote Lin. "Although a new presidential administration is entitled to develop programs with its chosen priorities, the Executive may not set out to suppress ideas it deems dangerous by trying to drive them out of the marketplace of ideas, and may not do so by canceling grants on the basis that they serve the very purposes for which

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