Judge indefinitely bars Trump from fining University of California over alleged discrimination
- On Friday, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from immediately cutting University of California system federal funding or imposing fines.
- The Republican administration says diversity, equity and inclusion efforts discriminate against white and Asian American students, while labor unions sued claiming funding threats silence opposing views and UC is in settlement talks.
- UCLA was the first campus targeted, with the administration fining it $1.2 billion and freezing its research funding, while University of California President James B. Milliken warned this would devastate the system.
- Messages to the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice were not immediately returned, and the administration has frozen funding against private colleges including Columbia while previously striking deals with Brown for $50 million and Columbia for $221 million.
- The administration has launched investigations of dozens of universities, claiming violations of civil rights law and issuing a settlement proposal made public in October demanding UCLA change gender identity rules and screen foreign students.
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Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Withholding Federal Funding to University of California - The Thinking Conservative News
Federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump admin from cutting federal funding to UCLA over its handling of anti-semitism on campus. The post Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Withholding Federal Funding to University of California appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Withholding Federal Funding to University of California
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Nov. 14 that blocked the Trump administration from cutting federal funding to the University of California over its handling of anti-semitism on campus. The ruling followed a lawsuit filed on Sept. 16 by associations and labor unions representing employees across the university’s 10 campuses, who alleged the administration violated their First Amendment rights by cutting off funding to the unive…
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California
The judge ruled that the government’s funding cuts and investigations opened by the Departments of Education and Justice were “coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and 10th Amendment”
By SUDHIN THANAWALA The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California (UC) or summarily cut federal funding to the school system over allegations of allowing antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled Friday night in a landmark decision. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction barring the government from canceling UC funding based on alleged discrimination without no…
Judge bars Trump from slashing funding for University of California
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration cannot immediately cut funding or issues fines against the University of California (UC) system over its allegations of discrimination and antisemitism. U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin placed a preliminary injunction against threats to funding, citing the administration’s repeated vow to launch civil rights investigations…
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