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."

"President Donald Trump has decried elite colleges as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism. His administration has launched investigations of dozens of universities, claiming they have failed to end the use of racial preferences in violation of civil rights law. The Republican administration says diversity, equity and inclusion efforts discriminate against white and Asian American students. The University of California is facing a series of civil rights investigations, according to Lin's ruling."

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 imposing fines over alleged antisemitism or other discrimination. Labor unions and groups representing UC faculty, students and employees presented evidence alleging a coordinated administration effort to purge certain political viewpoints from leading universities. Agency officials and senior leaders publicly described a playbook of civil rights investigations intended to justify withholding federal funds and force ideological changes. The administration has opened multiple civil rights probes of UC campuses, including a demand that UCLA restore frozen research funding.

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