Trump Administration: Research Project and Court Documents

trump administration: The Justice Department argued in court documents recently that providing the money to the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center would violate an agreement reached in 1975 to settle a class-action lawsuit, according to Metro News. For the study, hundreds of black men suffering from the sexually transmitted disease were allowed to go untreated for decades so doctors could analyze the progression of the illness. The Trump administration opposes a bid to use unclaimed money from a legal settlement over the government's infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to fund a museum honouring victims of the research project. The government said that it does not intend in any way to justify, condone, or defend the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, but allowing remaining money from a 9 million settlement to be used for the museum would violate the settlement's original provision that any left over money go back to the government. Starting in 1932 and continuing for four decades, government medical workers operating in rural, segregated Alabama withheld treatment from unsuspecting black men infected with syphilis so doctors could track the disease and dissect their bodies afterward. Fred Gray, a civil rights attorney who represented men in the study and made the funding request in 2016, declined comment on the government's position.U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson held a telephone conference on the request on May 30, records show, but hasn't ruled yet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.