US EditionOrders to Investigate Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms in Justice Dept.
- In early 2024, Emil Bove, a senior official in the Trump DOJ, ordered the Civil Rights Division to look into protests by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University.
- The investigation arose amid concerns over politically motivated efforts targeting campus activism following heightened pro-Hamas protests and administrative turmoil at Columbia.
- Federal magistrate judge Sarah Netburn twice rejected search warrant requests against the protesters due to insufficient probable cause and imposed strict filing conditions on prosecutors.
- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly condemned career prosecutors as sympathizers of terrorism, while the investigation prompted widespread internal dissent and a mass exodus of civil rights lawyers.
- The case intensified distrust within the DOJ and symbolized a broader campaign to conflate activism with antisemitism, prompting debates on free speech and civil rights enforcement in academic settings.
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‘Never again’ is now at Columbia and Yale universities
As Jews around the world commemorated Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, radical Columbia University students planned another violent and hateful encampment targeting their Jewish peers. Similarly, at Yale University, a new “encampment” gathered on April 23 to terrorize Jewish students. As a Columbia graduate disturbed by her alma mater’s moral and institutional failures, I have no choice but to decry this travesty. For the last two years, …
Justice Dept.’s Criminal Inquiry of Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms Internally - Overpasses For America
In an unusual move, Mr. Bove insisted that the prosecutors appeal the ruling to a district court judge, these people said. After weighing the request, Judge John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court of the Southern District of New York instructed the chief magistrate judge, Sarah Netburn, to reconsider the application, the people said. But the second time, the government lawyers fared even worse. Judge Netburn not only rejected the request for a …
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