A US federal judge has significantly restricted the Trump government’s implementation of a policy that threatens to suspend federal financing from schools that are involved in diversity, equity and inclusion programs – or Dei – or incorporate the racial issue in certain ways in many other aspects of student life.
US District Judge Landya McCafferty said the US government policy, presented by the Department of Education in a letter to educators earlier this year, was “classic point of view discrimination,” probably violating protections to the freedom of expression of the first amendment.
She also concluded that the National Education Association, the government’s opponent in the case, would probably be successful in its arguments that politics was unconstitutionally vague and that the agency violated the procedural stages required by law as it implemented politics.
“The prohibition of Dei (Department of Education, Inclusion and Equality) incorporated in the letter of 2025 leaves teachers with a choice of Hobson,” wrote the judge, nominated by Barack Obama and with a seat in New Hampshire, noting that educators should choose between teaching curricula that can be penalized by the federal government or risk their professional credentials when supporting Trump policy.
“The Constitution demands more,” she wrote.
McCafferty refused to issue a national order blocking the policy, but is preventing the government from applying it to any school that employs members of the National Education Association and receive federal funding.
At least two other courts are considering contestations to politics, including a Washington DC judge who is listening to the arguments in the process presented to him on Thursday (24).
This content was originally published in Judge Bloqueia Trump to retain funds to schools with diversity programs on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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