Trump Cancels Funds for Columbia University

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donbosco said:
I'm afraid folks at Columbia are expecting it to.
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To last long? It would be wrecked in court. The way to do this for the administration would be to perform an investigation, create a factual record, give Columbia a chance to respond, and then make a decision. That would be hard to attack, even if it was bad faith the entire time.

But as it stands this is just viewpoint discrimination. Without any actual evidence of Columbia committing any wrongdoing, the denial can't be upheld in court. What they are citing -- i.e. whether Columbia or Harvard want to label O7 "violence" or not -- is just a First Amendment protected viewpoint.
 
superrific said:
To last long? It would be wrecked in court. The way to do this for the administration would be to perform an investigation, create a factual record, give Columbia a chance to respond, and then make a decision. That would be hard to attack, even if it was bad faith the entire time.

But as it stands this is just viewpoint discrimination. Without any actual evidence of Columbia committing any wrongdoing, the denial can't be upheld in court. What they are citing -- i.e. whether Columbia or Harvard want to label O7 "violence" or not -- is just a First Amendment protected viewpoint.
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Two weeks could be long enough to create problems.
 
SnoopRob said:
That's optimistic with this SCOTUS.
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I'm confident this SCOTUS isn't going to be greenlighting viewpoint discrimination. And Roberts has been showing a reluctance to rule for the administration unless they do things the right way. It's like Quinta J. from lawfare said: Roberts' decisions tend to turn on how polite the government actor is.

Two weeks would be enough for a court to enjoin the withholding of funds. Unless there's an administrative record I don't know about, this is an easy case for an injunction.
 
Mundial said:
I never witnessed antisemitism on the campus. Jewish students were treated with respect, like the rest of the student population.
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Well "the times they are a changin'" This is the modern, Marxist (oppressor vs oppressed) left for you. I support expulsion for all students harassing and threatening Jews and disrupting classes, etc. and the immediate deportation for foreign students. Those Cosplay terrorists need to be punished hard along with their enabling college professors and administrators.

As one commentator noted: Imagine people dressed in full Klan outfits disrupting colleges and harassing black students with burning crosses? How tolerant would these Ivy League administrators be with THAT group?
 
Ramrouser said:
Well "the times they are a changin'" This is the modern, Marxist (oppressor vs oppressed) left for you. I support expulsion for all students harassing and threatening Jews and disrupting classes, etc. and the immediate deportation for foreign students. Those Cosplay terrorists need to be punished hard along with their enabling college professors and administrators.

As one commentator noted: Imagine people dressed in full Klan outfits disrupting colleges and harassing black students with burning crosses? How tolerant would these Ivy League administrators be with THAT group?
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Hey man. When you were at CU where did you live?
 
Ramrouser said:
and the immediate deportation for foreign students.
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Do we have to play the game again where you say something ridiculous, with like 5 different things wrong with it, and you take wild stabs at guessing what they are?

Let's see if you can figure out why your idea here is patently illegal.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Hmm. The admin that is led by a guy who has used antiseptic rhetoric, and is co-led by a guy who has pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories via tweets, and that has embraced AfD, is making accusations of antisemitism.
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That’s the one.
 
Ramrouser said:
Well "the times they are a changin'" This is the modern, Marxist (oppressor vs oppressed) left for you. I support expulsion for all students harassing and threatening Jews and disrupting classes, etc. and the immediate deportation for foreign students. Those Cosplay terrorists need to be punished hard along with their enabling college professors and administrators.

As one commentator noted: Imagine people dressed in full Klan outfits disrupting colleges and harassing black students with burning crosses? How tolerant would these Ivy League administrators be with THAT group?
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There were a lot of outside elements from Hamas. Any faculty supporting anti-semitism and convicted of it should have Fed support yanked. Faculty and admin at Columbia were more guilty of spinelessness, but Congress is chock full of invertebrates. The lefties were foolish, but that does not mean university support, already approved by NIH, NSF, Congressional budgets (Article I) should be rescinded university-wide.
 
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