WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to leverage a law intended to punish corrupt recipients of federal funding to pressure institutions like Harvard University to abandon their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, Justice Department officials announced late Monday.
President Donald Trump’s political appointees at the department cited antisemitism on campuses as justification for using the law, the False Claims Act, to target universities and other institutions that Trump views as bastions of opposition to his agenda and a ripe populist target to rile up his right-wing base.
“Institutions that take federal money only to allow antisemitism and promote divisive DEI policies are putting their access to federal funds at risk,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “This Department of Justice will not tolerate these violations of civil rights — inaction is not an option.”
The department’s use of the law is all but certain to be met with legal challenges. Last week, the Justice Department notified...
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