"In her ruling, Lin said labor unions and other groups representing UC faculty, students and employees 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," Lin wrote."
""It is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California." At UC, which is facing a series of civil rights probes, she found the administration had engaged in "coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment.""
A preliminary injunction bars the administration from cancelling or withholding federal research funding to the University of California over alleged discrimination without providing notice, affected-party hearings, and other procedural protections. The administration had demanded UCLA repay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and had paused or frozen funds at other institutions amid civil-rights probes. Evidence presented described a coordinated campaign targeting universities deemed ideologically 'woke' to coerce changes. The injunction found the administration's conduct at UC to be coercive and retaliatory, raising First and Tenth Amendment concerns about using funding to compel ideological conformity.
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