Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California

"She said they had provided "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, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune," she said."

"She added, "It is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California.""

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Trump administration from immediately cutting federal funding to the University of California or issuing fines over claims of antisemitism and other discrimination. Labor unions and groups representing UC faculty, students and employees brought the challenge. The ruling found substantial evidence of a coordinated effort by agency officials and senior administration figures to initiate civil rights investigations as a pretext for cutting funding and pressuring universities to change ideological positions. The administration has investigated many universities over alleged racial preferences and froze funds and fined UCLA over campus antisemitism allegations.

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