Judge William Orrick strikes again. The Barack Obama-appointed judge for the Northern District of California has blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal grants to cities that use discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies.

Think about that for a minute. A judge has ruled that American taxpayers have to keep giving grants to local governments that practice DEI, after the executive branch has determined the policy is both “illegal and immoral.”

DEI uses race, gender, sexuality and a variety of other labels to distinguish among Americans. Under Joe Biden, it became a legally sanctioned (or legally required) form of reverse discrimination.

Orrick says that the federal grants — which pay for a variety of public services — have nothing to do with the administration’s effort to end DEI.

But money is fungible. If a local government has federal money to cover fire safety, it can spend its own money on other things — like racial bean-counting and left-wing propaganda.

Orrick says that Congress, not the president, should control spending. But that spending is allocated to federal agencies, which have discretion over which programs are funded and which are not.

Besides, the president took an oath to defend the Constitution. He has a duty to prevent money from being spent to promote racism and sexism.

Orrick is a repeat offender. In the first year of Trump’s first term, he blocked Trump’s effort to cut off funding to “sanctuary” cities.

And yet the federal courts tell us that immigration is a federal power that the states cannot touch.

So why can states defy federal immigration law? And when they do, why can’t Trump punish them?

It defies logic to allow a lowly federal judge to dictate left-wing policy to the entire nation. But that’s what Orrick is doing, and that’s why Democrats sue in his court.

There’s another part of this story, which is the role played by Gavin Newsom’s state government in pushing these extreme left-wing policies.

Newsom’s administration is stuffed with DEI agencies and personnel. He even signed legislation to create a committee on reparations for slavery — never mind that California entered the Union as a free state.

The governor has said that Democrats need to be “more culturally normal” to win elections.

He could lead by example, and start slashing the bloated DEI bureaucracy, which adds nothing to the state but more red tape and racial division.

But, no — Newsom persists with DEI and its discriminatory structure, despite the fact that he himself, as a “cisgender white heterosexual male,” should probably be out of a job for that reason alone.

All Trump is trying to do is restore common sense. Gavin Newsom, and liberal activist judges, should get a clue.

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