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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/donald-trump-college-funding-protests-f4b5a679
President Trump threatened to take away federal funds from universities that allow what he called “illegal protests,” a move legal experts say would violate the First Amendment.
Trump didn’t explain which demonstrations he considered illegal in his social-media post Tuesday morning. Last year many college campuses were overwhelmed by pro-Palestinian protests related to the Israel-Hamas war.
“Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested,” he wrote.
Gautam Hans, a law professor at Cornell University, said the protests that Trump highlighted are protected by the First Amendment, which allows free speech.
“The government is trying to do an end run around the rights of the colleges and the students and the faculty by withholding the purse strings if it doesn’t like what the universities are allegedly saying,” said Hans, who focuses on First Amendment law.
The government funds universities through research grants and student loans.
Trump has previously said he wanted to dismantle the Education Department outright. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, confirmed Monday, has promised to reduce federal involvement in education and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
In a memo to the Education Department staff titled “Our Department’s Final Mission” viewed by The Wall Street Journal, McMahon pledged to cut back on bureaucracy and waste.
She said the department would participate in a “new era of accountability” that would “impact staff, budgets, and agency operations.”
Federal agencies were created by legislation so it would take an act of Congress to eliminate them.
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President Trump threatened to take away federal funds from universities that allow what he called “illegal protests,” a move legal experts say would violate the First Amendment.
Trump didn’t explain which demonstrations he considered illegal in his social-media post Tuesday morning. Last year many college campuses were overwhelmed by pro-Palestinian protests related to the Israel-Hamas war.
“Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested,” he wrote.
Gautam Hans, a law professor at Cornell University, said the protests that Trump highlighted are protected by the First Amendment, which allows free speech.
“The government is trying to do an end run around the rights of the colleges and the students and the faculty by withholding the purse strings if it doesn’t like what the universities are allegedly saying,” said Hans, who focuses on First Amendment law.
The government funds universities through research grants and student loans.
Trump has previously said he wanted to dismantle the Education Department outright. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, confirmed Monday, has promised to reduce federal involvement in education and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
In a memo to the Education Department staff titled “Our Department’s Final Mission” viewed by The Wall Street Journal, McMahon pledged to cut back on bureaucracy and waste.
She said the department would participate in a “new era of accountability” that would “impact staff, budgets, and agency operations.”
Federal agencies were created by legislation so it would take an act of Congress to eliminate them.
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