A heavily fractured Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to halt nearly $800 million in research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health that officials say touch on race and gender issues,

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

In dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson described the ruling as Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist: “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.