REPORT: Judge blocks Trump’s effort to enforce immigration, DEI cooperation

June 8, 2025

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From Fox Business: A federal judge handed Denver, Colo., a financial win after ruling against the Trump administration in a lawsuit over federal funding.

The administration had threatened to withhold $4 billion in federal transportation grants. Denver and other local governments argued that in its threat, the Trump administration issued “unlawful and politically motivated funding conditions.”

The requirements came from a memo issued by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in April. In the memo, Duffy informed recipients that they were required to comply with federal policies on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“Against this backdrop, [the] plaintiffs argue that in attempting to condition disbursement of funds in part on grounds not authorized by Congress, but rather on Executive Branch policy, Defendants are acting in violation of the Separation of Powers principle,” the order granting the preliminary injunction read.

The 49-page ruling was signed by U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein.

Rothstein, 86, was nominated by president Jimmy Carter in December 1979, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in February 1980.

Rothstein is the very same judge who, in 2023, ordered a women’s only spa (where nudity is required) to admit transgenders.

This is the POS Washington judge, Barbara Jacobs Rothstein

Who Ordered the ‘female-only’ Olympus Spa, where nudity is required

To admit ALL trans women, including, Haven Wilvich, who complained, and still has his Micropenis 🤮

Another ‘family owned business’, bites the dust~ pic.twitter.com/YxiUsTICBE

— TruthInBytes (@bytesintruth) June 9, 2023

If you don’t boycott this place YOU are perpetuating the problem.

District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein passed a judgment that propels Washington state towards greater inclusivity. The case centered around the Olympus Spa pic.twitter.com/u2DsuTHuo1

— Robert Alexander (@RobertA69326861) June 13, 2023

In case anybody was wondering who the judge was that is forcing a small business that is a women’s only spa to let men with🍆 in the spa area which is compulsory nudity, it’s Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein Washington DC. That is public information. She must really hate women. pic.twitter.com/Ge8RZLnQJ6

— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News🥜 (@unhealthytruth) June 11, 2023