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A federal decide has paused the efforts by the Trump administration to withhold funding from the University of California, half of which incorporates an investigation into civil proper violations of discrimination and antisemitism throughout the college system.
In her ruling on Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco said the federal government can’t pull funding from UC–at least for the second:
The Trump administration can’t immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the college system over claims it permits antisemitism or other varieties of discrimination, a federal decide ruled late Friday in a sharply worded determination.
US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by labor unions and other teams representing UC college, college students and staff. She said that they had supplied “overwhelming evidence” that the Trump administration was “engaged in a concerted campaign to purge ‘woke,’ ‘left,’ and ‘socialist’ viewpoints from our country’s leading universities.”
“Agency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding,” Lin’s ruling read, “with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune,” then continued, “It is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California.”
Judge Lin, who was nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden, stated that the Trump administration’s “coercive and retaliatory conduct [was] in violation of the First Amendment and 10th Amendment” based on “overwhelming evidence” argued by members of UC faculty and labor unions that their free speech was being “chilled.”
“With every day that passes, [the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)] continues to be denied the chance to win new grants,” she added, “ratchetting up Defendants’ pressure campaign. And numerous UC faculty and staff have submitted declarations describing how Defendants’ actions have already chilled speech throughout the UC system.”
In Feb, Leo Terrell, who works as senior counsel in Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s workplace, and on the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, announced before visiting 10 college campuses–including two in the UC system–that their “mandate is to bring the full force of the federal government to bear in our effort to eradicate Anti-Semitism, particularly in schools.” The visits had been just the first step, in other phrases.
As we wrote back in Aug., Team Trump told UCLA to pay up with “a cool $1 billion settlement”:
That’s proper, the administration is in search of a large settlement from UCLA, accusing the college of civil rights violations associated to antisemitism during pro-Palestinian protests.
The proposed settlement calls for that UCLA pay the settlement in installments, set up a $172 million fund for discrimination victims, and implement vital coverage adjustments, including revisions to insurance policies on protests and race-based scholarships. Additionally, it mandates the elimination of funding for gender-affirming care at UCLA’s hospital and medical amenities.
This got here, my colleague Rusty Weiss famous, after the Trump Justice (DOJ) and Education Departments (ED) “suspended over half a billion dollars in funding to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for refusing to negotiate on allegations of antisemitism on their campus.”
AAG Dhillon also commented on how dangerous issues have gotten at UC, after Antifa violence was just lately directed at a Turning Point USA event at UC-Berkeley.
The downside is not new, sadly. RedState has been on top of masking the intensive indicators that the First Amendment rights of college students on UC campuses aren’t being utilized equally by the college administration to everyone–including in 2023, when the late TPUSA co-founder, Charlie Kirk’s speech was attacked at UC Davis, as my colleague Jennifer Van Laar investigated.
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The Saturday ruling is just the latest in a string of rulings that haven’t gone the Trump administration’s means in federal courthouses. As our buddy Shipwreckedcrew famous in a current column, it is unprecedented. see: Federal Judges’ Rapid-Fire Rulings Against Trump Admin Are Unlike Anything Seen Before
There can be more on this case pretty soon, of course, so keep tuned for developments right here at RedState.
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