U.S. District Court temporarily blocks Trump Administration from forcing colleges and universities to provide race-related admissions data

On April 3, 2026, a U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts temporarily barred the Trump Administration from forcing colleges and universities to provide race- and sex-related admissions data. In a lawsuit filed by public universities in 17 states, plaintiffs argued that the US Department of Education’s recent request for seven years of race- and sex-related student admissions data was impermissible due to the “rushed and chaotic manner” in which the Department made the request.

Read the preliminary injunction from the district court here and reporting on the lawsuit from Reuters here.

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