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Last week, President Trump issued Executive Order 14332, Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking. The order imposes a new review process to realign discretionary grant awards and ensure that any future grants issued under...more
On July 24, 2025, the Trump Administration turned to the U.S. Supreme Court to block U.S. District Judge Young’s preliminary injunction prohibiting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from cutting hundreds of grant...more
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Since President Trump's return to office in January, his administration has intensified efforts to combat antisemitism on college campuses, positioning the issue as a central pillar of its civil rights agenda....more
Several environmental organizations filed a May 23rd Complaint-in-Intervention of Public Interest Organizations (“Complaint”) against the United States Department of Transportation in the United States District Court for the...more
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A recent executive order attacks DEI accreditation standards as courts block enforcement of the Department of Education’s Dear Colleague Letter on race. On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14279 (EO)...more
A group of 19 Democratic AGs filed a lawsuit to block the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) from enforcing a directive conditioning federal education funding on certification that state and local education agencies will not...more
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A group of 21 Democratic AGs fileda lawsuit to block an Executive Order that directs the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and...more
A group of 16 Democratic AGs, led by Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell, filed a lawsuit alleging that the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) delays in the review and approval of grant applications and terminations of...more
In just over two months since President Donald Trump assumed office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), now under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has undergone a profound shift in its...more
On March 13, 2025, twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration to stop its plans to cut the U.S. Department of Education’s workforce by roughly half. The case is in the U.S. District Court for the...more
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The first month of the second Trump Administration has been marked by a deluge of executive orders and federal agency directives aimed at implementing the new administration’s policy priorities. State Attorneys General have...more
On Thursday, February 13, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a partial temporary restraining order in response to lawsuits challenging Executive Order 14169, which paused all congressionally...more
Amid a surge of presidential executive orders since the change in administrations, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published a series of documents that have spawned much confusion and litigation. Via...more
A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by California AG Rob Bonta and New York AG Letitia James, has secured a temporary restraining order blocking a directive from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that would...more
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On January 29, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded M-25-13, which it had issued two days earlier, and which required federal agencies to "temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or...more
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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block a directive from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and...more
A Monday night memorandum issued by the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) ordered federal agencies to “temporarily pause” all federal funding and other agency activities that “may be implicated by” the slew of executive...more