From the NY Times: A federal judge on Thursday excoriated the Trump administration’s blitz of hardball tactics against elite universities, warning that the government’s threats and investigations were undermining academic freedom at the University of California. Judge Rita F. Lin, of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, did not immediately order the government to curb its pressure campaign against the university system. But it was only minutes into a hearing on Thursday before Judge Lin, her voice crackling with anger, began depicting the Trump administration’s methods as potentially lawless and deeply detrimental.
...What was emerging, she said, is “a classic, predictable First Amendment injury, and it’s exactly what the administration has said that it intends.” The White House did not immediately comment on Thursday.
...Thursday’s hearing focused on a request for Judge Lin to issue a preliminary injunction. Although the judge, an appointee of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said that she did not expect to rule until at least late next week, a barrage of sharp questions suggested that she was immensely skeptical of the government’s approach to schools like the University of California.
...The university system itself did not join [this] case that was before Judge Lin on Thursday. But system leaders have spent months in talks with the government about a possible settlement. The system has said little about those negotiations, and it tried unsuccessfully to keep the Trump administration’s U.C.L.A. settlement proposal out of view, fighting a public records lawsuit all the way to the California Supreme Court...
Full story https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-pressure-free-speech-university-of-california-lawsuit.html.
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