A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Nov 14 not to coerce the University of California by threatening its research funding in defiance of the First Amendment, an extraordinary rebuke to the federal government’s pressure campaign against elite schools. The judge, Rita F. Lin of US District Court in San Francisco, also said the US government was forbidden “from seeking payments” from the university system in connection with civil rights investigations – an order that could upend the Trump administration’s settlement talks with the university months after the Justice Department demanded more than US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion). Trump...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
