🚨Over the weekend, Plaintiffs who WON an injunction asked the district court to vacate it! Why? Because the 4th Circuit is poised to overrule the lower court and hold in favor of Trump Administration. Details @FDRLST Link to follow. 1/ pic.twitter.com/qMBt57b2Ij
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 24, 2025
Margot Cleveland
A group of plaintiffs asked a federal judge on Saturday to vacate the injunction he had previously entered in their favor against the Trump Administration that halted the implementation of the president’s directives to end DEI initiatives. The plaintiffs’ move came after a federal appellate court stayed the injunction, signaling a likely reversal of the injunction on appeal and a win for Trump. This motion represents the second effort within as many weeks by litigants to game the judicial system to avoid losing to the president on appeal. The courts should refuse to play along, including in this case by denying the motion to vacate the injunction.
On Saturday, the plaintiffs in National Ass’n of Diversity Officers in Higher Ed. v. Trump, filed a Motion to Vacate Preliminary Injunction Order in a federal court in Maryland. The plaintiffs in that case consisted of a national association of diversity officers, an organization representing university professors, a national organization of restaurant workers, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.
In early February, these plaintiffs had sued Donald Trump and a slew of federal agencies, challenging the executive orders the president issued to halt DEI efforts and seeking to enjoin the federal agencies from implementing those executive orders.
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