US EditionJudge 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 rules Trump administration cannot freeze funding or demand payments from University of California
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot use the threat to cut federal research funding to force the University of California system to comply with its bias and antisemitism reform demands. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, a Biden-appointee to the Northern District of California, granted a preliminary injunction Friday in a 76-page ruling that prohibits the feds from… Source
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President Donald Trump's government cannot fine the University of California (UC) or summarily cut federal funding for the school system on charges of allowing anti-Semitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled Friday night in a strong decision.
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”
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