Lawsuit over Trump rejecting medical research grants is settled
摘要
美国公民自由联盟等机构就特朗普政府时期以意识形态为由拒绝医疗研究拨款申请提起诉讼，现已达成和解。根据协议，美国国立卫生研究院将重新审查此前被意识形态理由阻断的拨款申请，使其进入标准同行评审流程。此前，相关拨款因内容受当时政府意识形态反对而被未经评审直接拒绝，该政策已被法院裁定为武断且违反《行政程序法》。
On Monday, the ACLU announced that it and other organizations representing medical researchers had reached a settlement in their suit against the federal government over grant applications that had been rejected under a policy that has since been voided by the court. The agreement, which still has to be approved by the judge overseeing the case, would see the National Institutes of Health restart reviews of grants that had been blocked on ideological grounds. It doesn't guarantee those grants will ultimately be funded, but it does mean they will go through the standard peer review process.
The grants had previously been rejected without review because their content was ideologically opposed by the Trump administration. That policy has since been declared arbitrary and capricious, and thus in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, a decision that was upheld by the Supreme Court.
How'd we get here?
Immediately after taking office, the Trump Administration identified a number of categories of research, some of them extremely vague, that it would not be supporting: climate change, DEI, pandemic preparedness, gender ideology, and more. Shortly thereafter, federal agencies started cancelling grants that they deemed to contain elements of these disfavored topics, and blocking consideration of grant applications for the same reasons. As a result, grants were cancelled that funded everything from research into antiviral drugs to the incidence of prostate cancer in African Americans.
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