REPORT: Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Education Department From Terminating DEI Teacher Grants

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From the Daily Caller: A Biden-appointed judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Department of Education’s (DOE) attempt to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars worth of teacher training programs that promoted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

The lawsuit was filed by the states of California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York and Wisconsin on Mar. 6 against the DOE and Education Secretary Linda McMahon for canceling the grants, which had an estimated cost of $600 million. The states claim the grants are “critical” to “recruiting and training highly qualified and diverse teachers.

“I see no reasoned explanation articulated for the Department’s action here,” Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Myong Joun wrote in the decision. “First, the Termination Letter lists several theoretical bases for the grant terminations—stating the grants fund programs that, for example, ‘promote or take part in DEI initiatives’ or ‘are not free from fraud, abuse, or duplication’ or ‘otherwise fail to serve the best interests of the United States’ — but fails to identify which of these bases applies here. This does not reach the level of a reasoned explanation; indeed it amounts to no explanation at all.” 

The Department of Education previously announced Feb. 17 that it was cutting the grants, calling the trainings they funded “divisive” and “inappropriate and unnecessary.”

Judge Myong Jin Joun, 53, was born in South Korea, and came to the U.S. as a child. He attended college in the U.S., and served in the Massachusetts National Guard.

He was first nominated by Joe Biden in July 2022 to serve as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to fill a seat vacated by Judge George A. O’Toole Jr., who assumed senior status on January 1, 2018. His nomination was finally confirmed by the Senate in July 2023.

Joun served on the ACLU Board of Directors from 2009-2014.

Journalist Natalie Winter added more details on Judge Joun:

Meet the federal Judge who just blocked President Trump’s cuts to DEI teacher training.

His resume is full of DEI activism, he served on the board of groups currently suing President Trump, and trained far-left activists how to avoid arrests during protests.

His resume is full of positions explicitly designed to promote DEI including:

– Chair of the Boston Municipal Court’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
– Chair of the Harry J. Elam Conference Committee on Racial Justice.
– Massachusetts Bar Diversity Task Force
– Massachusetts Trial Court
Committee to Eliminate Racism and Other Systemic Barriers
– Racial Climate in the Courtroom Working Group, Member

He has also led several “Know Your Rights” workshops to far-left activist organizations, including those funded by George Soros. Groups include Grassroots International, Arlington United for Justice with Peace, and Alliance for Justice.

In February, Joun sentenced a man guilty of child pornography to only 5 years in prison.

APAICS, a “national non-profit dedicated to promoting Asian Pacific American participation and representation at all levels of the political process,” cheered when Joun was confirmed as a judge.

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