Congress retaliated against court-ordered busing by restricting federal education funds.

Evidence

The public response to this aggressive judicial intervention was overwhelmingly negative. Congress cut off federal funds for busing in 1972; and in 1978, it forbade terminating federal funding to school districts when compliance with desegregation would require busing. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3032

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates legislative counterattack on judicial policymaking — a recurring theme in the judicial-review and court-curbing literature.
• SEED: Angle: courts decide, Congress defunds — the appropriations power as the underused check on judicial remedies.