Post #2313015
2026-05-08 07:29 UTC
In her 143-page ruling, Judge McMahon ordered the agency to rescind the cuts while saying the plaintiffs had suffered “irreparable injury.”
“The injury is not limited to the loss of money,” Judge McMahon said.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/arts/neh-grants-lawsuit-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.g48z.IlK8B2KtTcYs
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@mike@sauropods.win 2026-05-08 07:33
@mpe@hcommons.social Obviously I am very much in favour of this verdict, even though it's much too late to undo the damage. But I have to admit it's hard to see how a budget cut, however ill-conceived, can be construed as a First-Amendment violation.
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-05-08 08:25
@mpe@hcommons.social Actually, as the article also indirectly points out, the injury is to society as a whole, to the first-amendment function of enabling society to reflect on and understand itself. But society-as-a-whole is too diffuse of an entity to have standing...