‘DEI is on its deathbed’: Trump gets huge victory when appeals court allows his non-discrimination orders

An activist judge at the entry level in America’s federal court system had stopped President Donald Trump from running his own administration.

Not anymore.

A three-judge panel at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has acted to overturn the lower court’s decision and is allowing Trump’s orders to eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion social agenda initiatives from being used in government agencies and contractors.

BREAKING: An appeals court just lifted a previous judge’s ruling blocking Trump from gutting DEI

DEI is on its deathbed

MASSIVE WIN pic.twitter.com/pyhe44MeE3

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 6, 2026

BREAKING — TRUMP VICTORY: A US Appeals court has just VACATED an activist judge’s injunction which HALTED President Trump’s executive order gutting DEI in the federal government

President Trump is now free to fire ANY AND ALL DEI hires which plague the executive branch.… pic.twitter.com/xddGxC7HHS

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 6, 2026

BREAKING:

Appeals court just nuked the block on Trump’s DEI purge.

The ruling was lifted, and DEI mandates are already crumbling.

Source: @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/zkeK6DT3pg

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 6, 2026

A report from the New York Post said the appellate judges unanimously ruled Adam B. Abelson, a judge in Maryland, blew the decision when he granted a preliminary injunction halting Trump’s plan.

The panel making the decision included Albert Diaz, Pamela A. Harris and Allison Jones Rushing, and they agreed the president “may determine his policy priorities and instruct his agents to make funding decisions based on them.”

Diaz wrote, “President Trump has decided that equity isn’t a priority in his administration and so has directed his subordinates to terminate funding that supports equity-related projects to the maximum extent allowed by law.”

Abelson had presumed to control the administration nationwide, sounding off with a nationwide injunction against Trump’s plan, an injunction that now is dead.

The case was brought by Baltimore officials and several organizations.

Comments at the Gateway Pundit said Trump had signed two Executive Orders, one telling agencies in the executive branch to end “discriminatory” DEI policies.

The other targeted such discrimination in federal grant recipients.