The unions, faculties and students of the educational system of the University of California continued the administration of President Donald Trump on Tuesday for the freezing of federal funds and other actions which, according to them, aim to stifle academic freedom.
THE trial Deposed to the American district court in the North District of California, seeks to prohibit the government from using financial threats against the system which, according to him, were harmful and illegal. It also aims to restore the funding already suspended.
“(The administration) tried to implement a game book to threaten colleges and universities,” said the coalition that filed the trial. He added that these threats were based on disdain for the institutions program, expressive activity on campuses and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The University of California said it was not part of the prosecution, but that it was engaged in many legal efforts and advocacy to maintain and restore its funding.
A White House spokesperson has rejected prosecution as a legal effort as “victimization research professors”, saying that the Trump administration opposed “unreasonable general costs” while pleading for the responsible management of federal funds.
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The government has launched probes in the universities of anti -Semitism presumed during student demonstrations against the assault of Israel against Gaza, and frozen funds on this and in other questions, including climate initiatives and Dei programs.
Civil rights defenders say that Trump administration is trying to make universities more aligned on its political program, while criticisms also see attempts as threatening freedom of expression and academic freedom.
The University of California operates one of the country’s largest higher education systems, with 10 main campuses and nearly 300,000 students, as well as 265,000 teachers and other staff.
The Trump administration had proposed to settle its investigation at the University of California in Los Angeles – which is part of the university system – by a billion dollars of the institution. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has described this extortion attempt.
The UCLA said that in August, the government frozen $ 584 million in funding before a judge ordered the Trump administration to restore part of this money. The University of California of Berkeley, another system campus, said on Friday that it had provided information on 160 teachers and students to the government as part of an investigation.
The president of the University of California, James Milliken, said on Monday that the institution was confronted with one of the most serious threats in its history due to the actions of the federal government, noting that it receives more than $ 17 billion each year of federal support.
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The Trump administration has faced legal roadblocks in its attempts to go to financing. A federal judge ruled earlier this month that he had illegally dismissed more than $ 2 billion in subsidies for Harvard University.
The government alleges that universities have authorized anti -Semitism during campus demonstrations. The demonstrators, including certain Jewish groups, said that the government wrongly assisted their criticism of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in anti -Semitism, and advocate for them for Palestinian rights with support for extremism.
Human rights defenders have noted an increase in anti-Semitism, anti-arab bias and Islamophobia due to a conflict in the Middle East, although Trump administration has not announced probes about Islamophobia.
The administration has set up its investigations with Columbia and Brown Universities.
