Challengers to Trump DEI Orders Lose Bid to Undo Injunction (1)

A federal judge declined to vacate his initial injunction pausing President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders after the challengers sought to reconsider their litigation strategy and pursue different relief.

Judge Adam Abelson on Thursday denied the motion by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and other plaintiffs to vacate the nationwide preliminary injunction he issued Feb. 21. An appellate court has already stayed that order as it reviews the case.

Abelson of the US District Court for the District of Maryland had temporarily blocked the entire federal government from enforcing portions of Trump’s orders targeting diversity, equity, ...