{"id":70877,"date":"2026-04-04T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/federal-judge-halts-white-house-effort-to-collect-university-data-on-applicants-race\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:03:00","slug":"federal-judge-halts-white-house-effort-to-collect-university-data-on-applicants-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/federal-judge-halts-white-house-effort-to-collect-university-data-on-applicants-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge halts White House effort to collect university data on applicants\u2019 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ordered data collection after raising concern about race being used as factor in college admissions<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Friday halted efforts by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren\u2019t considering race in admissions.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling from the US district court judge F Dennis Saylor IV in Boston granting the preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general. It will only apply to public universities in plaintiffs\u2019 states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/04\/judge-halts-trump-administration-demand-university-applicants-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ordered data collection after raising concern about race being used as factor in college admissions A federal judge on Friday halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren\u2019t considering race in admissions. The ruling from the US district court judge F Dennis Saylor IV in Boston granting &#8230; <a title=\"Federal judge halts White House effort to collect university data on applicants\u2019 race\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/federal-judge-halts-white-house-effort-to-collect-university-data-on-applicants-race\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal judge halts White House effort to collect university data on applicants\u2019 race\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}