The administration of President Donald Trump faces a new lawsuit that argues that the administration's threat to block hundreds of millions of dollars from federal funding from Columbia University illegal.
The American Federation of Teachers filed the lawsuit alongside the American Association of University Professors on Tuesday, on the pretext that the Trump administration is seeking to “unify power over higher education.”
“This procedure challenges the Trump administration's illegal efforts and unprecedented to overcome the academic independence of the university, control of thought, association, scholarships, and to express faculty and students,” the lawsuit says.
“The Trump administration coercifes Columbia University to carry out its tender, regulate speech and expression on campus by maintaining billions of dollars in federal financing adopted from Congress – financing responsible for the status of the American University system as a global leader in scientific, medical and technological research, which is necessary to ensure that this is continuing.”
The video shows the arrest of Colombia's anti -Israeli leader Mahmoud Khalil
Instantial instigators organized camps on the campus of Colombia. (Getty Images)
The lawsuit comes yet Colombia officials He agreed to enact comprehensive changes on its policies related to student protests and conduct a review of the Middle East Studies Department.
The Trump administration threatened to block about $ 400 million if the changes are not made.
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The administration of President Donald Trump has threatened to fund discounts for Colombia University if it did not affect the protest policies. (Fox News / Special Report)
Ivy League school agreed to ban masks for the purpose of hiding identity, enabling 36 university campus police officers with new authorities to arrest students and appoint a senior deputy with wide power to supervise the department The Middle East, South Asia and African studies, as well as the Center for Palestinian Studies.
The sources familiar with the negotiations told Fox News that meeting the demands does not mean that Colombia will receive $ 400 million of financing, but this is just a pre -condition for opening talks.
Maria McGever, Executive Director of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), spoke in the “emergency reserve stand” outside Gates at Columbia University to protest the recent policy changes on Monday. (Fox)
A lawsuit on Tuesday, presented in the southern province of New York, the court calls for the Trump administration to return to return “all scholarships and contracts to Columbia University.”
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The court also urges to prevent the Trump administration from making more discounts in financing, in addition to granting damage to the plaintiffs.
Fox News Luis Cassiano contributed to this report.
