"By that point, the Trump administration had already released multiple executive orders declaring certain types of curriculum unconstitutional, detained international students who spoke out against the Israeli government and terminated hundreds of government contracts with research organizations whose projects included words like "biases," "racism" and "women." Perhaps most notably, the president froze federal funding for Columbia University -the Ivy League institution where the Knight Institute is based-for the way officials allegedly mishandled campus protests and antisemitism complaints."
"And while dozens of lawsuits were filed in an attempt to mitigate these brazen attacks on academic freedom, the Supreme Court had already overturned the first of what would become several lower court rulings concerning higher ed. Nothing appeared to be slowing the White House down. "During the first Trump administration, there were lots of checks and balances that just aren't operational right now," Jaffer said."
Jameel Jaffer said President Trump's assault on free speech is unprecedented in his lifetime and likely without parallel in the last 100 years. He allowed limited comparisons to the McCarthy era. He did not predict such a contentious climate a year earlier; it became apparent around the 100th day of Trump's second term. By then the administration had issued executive orders targeting certain curricula, detained international students protesting Israel, and terminated hundreds of research contracts whose projects included words like "biases," "racism" and "women." The president froze federal funding for Columbia University over alleged mishandling of campus protests and antisemitism complaints. Dozens of lawsuits followed while the Supreme Court overturned initial lower-court rulings. Checks and balances in Congress, the courts, whistleblowers, and internal administrative constraints were far weaker than before.
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