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U.S. Department of Education is launching new investigations into 60 colleges and universities over alleged “relentless antisemitic eruptions.” This follows new executive orders signed by President Trump expanding the definition of antisemitism to include criticisms of Israeli policies. The investigations are part of the new multi-agency “antisemitism task force.”

The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights ...

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Stéphanie Pageau
We're about to see a whole lot more of people getting disappeared...
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
... notified the schools late Monday about the investigations “relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination.” They will look to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, including shared Jewish ancestry. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said that federal funding for these institutions is at risk if they do not comply with these laws.

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MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
As of early February, five of the 60 schools under investigation had already been named: Columbia, Northwestern, Portland State, USC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

The list also includes

Yale
Stanford
University of S. California
University of Tennessee
University of N. Carolina
University of S. Florida
University of Virginia
University of Washington-Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wellesley
Whitman College

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Louane CooIey
Here’s a link to the notice with a list of all schools

https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment

The Office for Civil Rights today sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus.
U.S. Department of Education
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Thanks Lou. It's a grim development.
Louane CooIey
Brutal. About controlling speech but also destroying the universities.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
It's shameful that so many of the university administrations are willing to collaborate.
Louane CooIey
we’ve had long convos here about this. What they are doing largely is trying to follow the law* and keep the lights on. Not a metaphor-~50% of grant funding goes toward overhead. The fight about NIH grants centered on overhead being too high, which is true, but axing all funding isn’t how it gets fixed.
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*an awkward balance of interests between free speech and assembly, public safety issues, antisemitism & hate speech laws, ever changing campus policy…it’s messy.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
This goes back to the point I was making earlier about tipping points.
(and I understand that it's complicated and there are trade offs)
However, there has to be a line somewhere, and surely investigating students who may well be forcibly disappeared is that line?
Louane CooIey
Agreed. It shouldn’t be this way. The law doesn’t protect people with LPR status like Mahmoud Khalil in the way people think though. And tipping points get recognized long after, not usually in the moment.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
"And tipping points get recognized long after, not usually in the moment."
Only by people who don't want to upset the apple cart by acting, even when it's clear what's happening.
Louane CooIey
This is a helpful analysis of the legal points about the case. https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-questions-about-the-khalil

131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case

The government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.
Steve Vladeck (One First)
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Oh that's great. I used to listen to his podcast with Bobby Chesney during 45.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
I did wonder whether jurisdiction was part of (the main?) reason they moved him to Louisiana ...
Louane CooIey
I hadn’t caught the timing of the habeus petition. That could prove crucial.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
I'll be keeping an eye on the hearing tomorrow.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
This is an interesting point about jurisdiction, from Pablo Manriquez of Migrant Insider:

"ICE often goes immigration "judge shopping" by putting detainees in detention centers under jurisdictions of courts that very rarely decide in favor of migrants.
Jena/Lasalle in Louisiana where Mahmoud Khalil is held is one such detention center."
BashStKid
Very much that. They’ve spent decades subverting the various circuits and appointing placemen to turn the judiciary into a speak-your-verdict machine.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
This is Lou's area of expertise but it's hard to deny that it's more surprising when the rule of law is upheld these days than the other way around.
Louane CooIey
Yep. This is correct. There are way fewer rights and far more subjectivity to the judicial system than people understand. He’s in LA because it’s in the 5th Cir. Pretty notorious hardline activist judges.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Aye, I'd kinda assumed that because, well, Louisiana.
Louane CooIey
LA law is weird too because at the state level, it’s based on Napoleonic code (that’s not at all relevant at the federal level, just weird).
BashStKid
There has to be an interesting story there …
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Throwback to pre-Purchase days 😬
BashStKid
I was guessing that the Purchase was prior to the Code, but I’m sure the story will be more convoluted!
Louane CooIey
also I’m about as far from a constitutional lawyer as one can get and still be in the profession. But I was taking Con Law in spring 2018 during the last rodeo when they tried on a lot of this. My prof would come in and rant for 40 min, covering all the stuff that had gotten thrown out the window since the last class. Trump2.0 is just smarter versions of the previous bullshit. But the lawyers are also wise to much of it.
Feznander
My institution's prez sent an utterly shameful system-wide email about this yesterday, basically announcing that the university will be doing the bidding of the ADL in the hopes of getting itself off the hook. I am incandescently angry. As a Jewish academic, I do NOT consent to my identity being used as a cover for genocide and a pretext for repression of Muslims, activists, and intellectual life.
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