Trump administration officials ignored the recommendations of their own investigators as they pushed to find civil rights violations at three Ivy League universities, according to a whistleblower complaint released on Aug 18.The Aug 17 account came from a former Department of Justice civil rights lawyer, Haley Van Erem, and colleagues whose names were redacted, who said they were assigned in 2025 to an administration task force on anti-Semitism. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released the account on Aug 18.