In a major win for sanity, a federal appeals court cleared the way for President Donald J. Trump’s executive orders banning discriminatory Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the government to go into effect.
On Friday, the three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, unanimously smacked down Biden-appointed lower court judge Adam Abelson’s effort to obstruct the will of the people by overturning his injunction blocking Trump from implementing the orders that he signed last year shortly after taking office.
🚨 BREAKING — TRUMP VICTORY: A US Appeals court has just VACATED an activist judge’s injunction which HALTED President Trump’s executive order gutting DEI in the federal government
President Trump is now free to fire ANY AND ALL DEI hires which plague the executive branch.… pic.twitter.com/xddGxC7HHS
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 6, 2026
The trio of judges agreed that the President of the United States “may determine his policy priorities and instruct his agents to make funding decisions based on them.”
“President Trump has decided that equity isn’t a priority in his administration and so has directed his subordinates to terminate funding that supports equity-related projects to the maximum extent allowed by law,” wrote Chief Judge Albert Diaz, a Barack Obama appointee.
“Whether that’s sound policy or not isn’t our call. We ask only whether the policy is unconstitutionally vague for funding recipients,” he added.
Obama appointee Judge Pamela Harris and Judge Allison Jones, who was appointed by Trump, concurred on the ruling, a stinging setback for the left-wing cultural revolutionaries who had institutionalized anti-white racism at the highest levels until Democrats were chased from national power by an angry electorate in 2024.
In a statement to the media, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson called the court’s ruling a “big win” and said that the Trump administration “has proudly put an end to unlawful DEI discrimination in the federal government.”
X users declared that “DEI is on its deathbed” as they took to the platform to celebrate the “big win” for the administration.
BREAKING: An appeals court just lifted a previous judge’s ruling blocking Trump from gutting DEI
DEI is on its deathbed
MASSIVE WIN pic.twitter.com/pyhe44MeE3
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 6, 2026
Another win on appeal. It’s almost as if the lower courts are there just to impede and delay.
— TheSolution (@TheSolution1212) February 6, 2026
This is what happens when activists flood the courts.
It takes MONTHS to get things fully upheld.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 6, 2026
Outstanding.
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) February 6, 2026
Finally he gets to cut the mold off the cheese.
Wonderful.😀👍🤟— HELP MICHIGAN (@MichiganHelp) February 7, 2026
“Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system. Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned, or shut out of opportunities because of their race or sex,” Trump said in issuing the January 20, 2025, executive order ending DEI in the federal government.
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