{"id":143490,"date":"2026-02-06T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/06\/4th-circuit-lifts-block-on-trump-executive-orders-targeting-dei-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:42:44","slug":"4th-circuit-lifts-block-on-trump-executive-orders-targeting-dei-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/06\/4th-circuit-lifts-block-on-trump-executive-orders-targeting-dei-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Circuit Lifts Block on Trump Executive Orders Targeting DEI Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe President may determine his policy priorities and instruct his agents to make funding decisions based on them,” Chief Judge Albert Diaz wrote. \u201cWhether that’s sound policy or not isn’t our call. We ask only whether the policy is unconstitutionally vague for funding recipients.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe President may determine his policy priorities and instruct his agents to make funding decisions based on them,” Chief Judge Albert Diaz wrote. \u201cWhether that’s sound policy or not isn’t our call. We ask only whether the policy is unconstitutionally vague for funding recipients.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe President may determine his policy priorities and instruct his agents to make funding decisions based on them,” Chief Judge Albert Diaz wrote. \u201cWhether that’s sound policy or not isn’t our call. We ask only whether the policy is unconstitutionally vague for funding recipients. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe President may determine his policy priorities and instruct his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/legal-news-SZBjWg.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}