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Dear Friend,
Opposing the Trump regime’s rapidly encroaching authoritarianism
over every aspect of our lives isn’t one fight. It’s many, big and
small.
I wanted to let you know of a recent big one. A 2.2 billion
dollar one.
In an effort to expand his power over all of our institutions,
criminalize free speech, and even dictate who is admitted into our
schools and what they're taught, Trump has been threatening
universities to succumb to his control by withholding federal
funding.
Funding like this is essential for researching cancer, food safety,
viruses, the climate, and much more — research we count on to stay
healthy, save the lives of our loved ones, and ensure our futures.
Harvard, home to so much of this research, said no, took the Trump
regime to court, and WON!
In the ruling, Judge Allison D. Burroughs cited Trump’s use of
smokescreen antisemitism:
“In fact, a review of the
administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other
than that Defendants used antisemitism as a
smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated
assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way
that runs afoul of the APA, the First Amendment and Title
VI,”
That’s big news for every American, but doubly big news for you and
those who support our work here at Bend The Arc.
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