Posted on 03/21/2025 1:38:10 AM PDT by Libloather
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily barred Columbia University and Barnard College from complying with a Republican-led House committee's demand for student disciplinary records, at least until a hearing next week.
The order comes as U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian prepares to review a request for a temporary restraining order filed by Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and other students seeking to block the release of their records.
Why It Matters Khalil, who was arrested and faces possible deportation over his role in campus protests against Israel, along with other students identified by pseudonyms, sued earlier this month to prevent the House Committee on Education and the Workforce from obtaining disciplinary records related to the demonstrations.
What to Know The lawsuit, filed in a Manhattan federal court against the schools, the committee, and its Republican chairman, Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, asks the court to permanently block Congress from forcing the schools to hand over the records and prevent the universities from following that order.
Newsweek has reached out to Walberg's office via a phone call on Thursday evening.
The committee had previously warned the universities that failure to comply could put billions of dollars in federal funding at risk. Judge Subramanian has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday.
The judge's order comes as Columbia University faces a deadline this week from the Trump administration to implement major reforms to secure federal funding. The university has already lost $400 million over claims that it failed to protect students and staff from antisemitism during pro-Palestinian protests.
Among the administration's demands, Columbia must place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under academic receivership for at least five years, adopt a revised definition of antisemitism, and overhaul its admissions policies.
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Screw the judge(s). Let the Administration pull their funding until they comply with records requests and let Columbia deal with the judge(s).
Those "protestors" were doing what they were taught at Columbia University - they were just supposed to do it to someone else.
“Appointed by Joe Biden”, is all you need to know
This!
Not one more dollar to ANY of these indoctrination centers, until the current defiance, and usurpation by these federal clown judges ends.
Hit them hard, and hit them now.
There are around 900 federal judges? We need a tally sheet of Reagan,Clinton,BushI-II,Obama,Trump and Biden judges.
Totally unconstitutional.
Or rather:
TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL
okay, don’t turn the records over. No problem. Why a lawsuit to stop the records that you don’t want to to over? Just reply that you are not going to turn them over. The government has already set the terms. No records no Federal funding. I just don’t see the problem. Comply or not. A judge has no authority to give you both no records and continue funding.
This is exactly why foreign born judges were put in place. No loyalty to the U.S. They’re “free agents”.
BINGO!
If a district judge doesn’t have to follow rulings of fedgov, fedgov doesn’t have to follow rulings of district judges. A Mexican standoff.
EC
This has been coming for a while.
Gawain judge led the way in 2016
BTTT
[[Judge Arun Subramanian]]
Another Amish judge I see
Somebody needin’ a little DOGEin’
“Obama and Biden appointed dozens if not hundreds of petty black robed tyrants.”
These corrupt tyrant judges can only issue edicts and illegal judgements and get fawning media attention and attempt law-fare entrapment for impeachment of the President.
Never forget when that fly-infested evil Obama tried to get a his long desired nazi brownshirt citizen gestapo created in the USA. These would’ve been the ones arriving on your doorstep at 2 AM enforcing all of these illegal and unconstitutional ‘rulings’ and also showing up when we post something online they don’t like.
July 2, 2008 Obama: “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded “as our military force.
Obama’s so-called “army” was crushed in my state when a BLM agitator called for violent protests. The state prosecuted the communist under the state’s anti-klan law, resulting in 5 to 10 years in state prison. Obama’s “army” hasn’t returned.
These Godless lawless anti-Christ Communists know their at war with free Americans, they used USAID and every other wicked Obama, Clinton, Klaus Schwab WEF invented scheme against us and failed.
They were hoping to burn it all down so no one would be looking for the receipts. They will be back if we dont stop them here and now.
Well, THIS judge got his JD from Columbia Law School. Conflict of interest?????
This thread is kinda irrelevant at this point—Columbia folded:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4305947/posts
Well, we’re surrounded by THIS Robespierre because CHUCK U. SCHUMER was the one who recommended him to Biden for appointment. Small world, huh?
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