Donald Trump’s January 20 and 21 executive orders to government agencies to terminate grants promoting DEI or “gender ideology” have sent NEA grant recipients and applicants—both organizations and individual authors—into confusion over the past few weeks. Making the landscape vaguer still is a preliminary injunction blocking those executive orders, in a case brought by higher education organizations and the city of Baltimore. Authors Guild president Mary Rasenberger advises that the NEA’s new rules and mandated “assurance of compliance” that new grant applicants are required to sign are likely unenforceable due to vagueness and unconstitutionality. In particular, new regulations have appeared […]
