This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” Justice Jackson said in dissent. “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.

A federal judge had ruled that the more than $1 billion in cuts to research grants, like studies into HIV prevention, violated federal law.

The nation's highest court has lifted a federal judge’s order blocking $783 million worth of cuts made by the National Institutes of Health to align with Republican President Donald Trump’s priorities.