The University of California (UC) is sueing the Trump administration with a group of students, faculty, employee and labor unions, accusing them of violating their educational freedom and free speech rights.
trialFiled in the US district court for the northern district of California on Tuesday, the Trump administration accuses the “Commander of the public university system and attempting to purify it from the point of view of its premises, with which the President and his administration” disagree. “
Last month, administration Fined University of California, Los Angeles $ 1.2 billion and Federal research funding stopped The school violated the Federal Civil Rights Act after the Department of Justice (DOJ). A judge, however, Order of administration To restore a portion of that $ 584 million in funding on 15 August.
Doj, in July reportThe UCLA “actually acted with indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jews and Israeli students.”
The case filed on Tuesday, however, alleges that a uniform “playbook” has been followed in the administration’s actions. Harvard, Brown and Colombia,
According to the trial, in a letter sent to the UCLA on August 8, the Trump Administration lists several demands for the UCLA in exchange for the federal research funding of the university. The requirements include banning the UCLA in some areas of the campus, sharing disciplinary records of international students with the federal government, hiring and ending any racial preferences in any race-based scholarship and changing their policies for transgender students in athletics, public places and health care.
The administration also demanded that the UCLA appoints a “resolution monitor” to oversee the Campus Monitor, and said that the administration has the right to appoint an officer to the post “If the UCLA and the administration cannot compromise on who should be appointed as that monitor.”
These essential policy changes, which have already begun the lawsuit claims, “students, faculty, educational and employees of employees have” widely chilling effects “. If fully implemented, the plaintiff will reduce the free speech and association rights to reduce violations on rights and UC’s student will reduce the body’s diversity.
“The dangers and forced conduct of the defendants have caused a feeling of fear and threat among the UC faculty, students, educational staff and employees who have already begun the UC to change their policies and practices for the Trump administration.
The UC system is composed of 10 campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Irwin, Los Angeles, Mead, Rivaraside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruise. The lawsuit also notes that the system includes five medical centers and several research laboratories and institutions.
The White House, DOJ and UC systems have reached the hill comments.
