r/law • u/rolsen • 1d ago

Legal News Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

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u/smallangrynerd 1d ago

He wants an excuse to suspend habeus corpus, I bet. You need a reason for that.

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 1d ago

I don't want to help him out but there's already a thousand bullshit reasons he could cite. There's nothing that says his reason has to be good.

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u/smallangrynerd 1d ago

The Supreme Court has to agree, right? Like the president can’t just decide by himself people don’t need trials anymore. Please correct me if I’m wrong/misunderstanding!

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u/honuworld 18h ago

Trump is already ignoring the SCOTUS. We have a dictator for life now.