DOJ Must Provide Grants to Cities’ Police Departments, for Now

Four Western cities won a pause in the Trump administration’s plans to tie federal grant funding for their police departments to the government’s anti-diversity goals.

San Francisco City and County, San Diego, Santa Clara, Calif., and Tucson, Ariz. are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims, said Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California, as he granted the cities’ preliminary injunction request “to preserve the status quo pending trial.”

The Justice Department and its Community Oriented Policing Services office under Trump require that grant recipients agree to comply with presidential orders, and certify that they don’t ...