DC Cir. Questions Challenges to DOJ Grant, Program Terminations

Oct. 14, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

The DC Circuit appeared skeptical of reviving two cases brought by organizations challenging decisions by the Trump administration to cancel more than $820 million in grants and end programs that provided legal aid to immigrants.

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has “long treated these types of things, grants, as contracts,” Judge Neomi Rao said Tuesday, in response to arguments that the nearly 400 grants canceled by the US Department of Justice to support law enforcement and crime victim services aren’t contracts under the Tucker Act. “I’m not sure where the argument would come from” that the ...

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