A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on Monday that directives from the Trump administration that led to the cancellations of several research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were "void" and "illegal.

In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months,

A federal judge took issue with the Trump administration’s contention that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives fueled unlawful discrimination, challenging a Justice Department attorney on the matter in a trial over cuts to research funding.