Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional

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> McMahon also rejected the government’s argument that there was no constitutional problem because any viewpoint classification was ChatGPT’s doing, and not the government’s. > “ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it,” she wrote.

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What will be the consequences?

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From the ruling ( https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/291-Me... ): >The second stage of the grant termination process began on March 12, 2025, when Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh – identified in the record as members of DOGE’s “Small Agencies Team” – met with NEH leadership, including McDonald and Wolfson… Prior to joining the Trump Administration, neither Fox nor Cavanaugh had any experience in government, public grant administration, private grant administration, or reviewing humanities projects for scholarly merit… In fact, as both were in their twenties, they did not have much experience in anything at all – certainly not in anything remotely related to the humanities.