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France Passes Law for Restituting Colonial-Era Art—and More Art News

France Passes Law for Restituting Colonial-Era Art—and More Art News

The Headlines IN THE DOGEHOUSE. A federal judge slammed the US DOGE Service, ruling on Thursday that the Elon Musk–led department made unconstitutional and discriminatory cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities grants worth over $100 million, according to the Washington Post. US District Judge Colleen McMahon said DOGE violated the First and Fifth Amendments when it used ChatGPT to determine which grants to cancel based on whether they mentioned diversity, equity, and inclusion in their programs. She called the DOGE’s actions “a textbook example of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination,” and stated that Congress gave no authority to cut the funding it had appropriated. Some canceled grants highlighted in the case include projects about the Holocaust, HIV in prisons, and Indigenous culture at the Mesa Verde National Park and Wupatki National Monument. In its defense, the government suggested ChatGPT was responsible for determining what constituted DEI, not the DOGE employees. Judge McMahon shot back by comparing their argument to saying, “The devil made me do it.” That excuse, McMahon wrote, “does not work for the Government.” Related Articles THIRD TIME’S A CHARM. On Thursday, France’s …