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Federal attorneys leave Trump’s UC antisemitism investigation en masse, alleging ‘sham’ process

JL;DR SUMMARY Amidst allegations of a politicized "sham process," nine federal prosecutors, including Jewish former attorney Dena Robinson, resigned from the Justice Department's antisemitism probe into the University of California system under the Trump administration. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationTitle ViUclaJewish DiscriminationFederal InvestigationPropublicaUc SystemDena RobinsonRon Avi Astor

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Los Angeles, California, United States
"Speaking to the Los Angeles Times last week, the attorneys described an unserious and sham investigation fueled primarily by Trumps desire for retribution against higher education and increasingly untethered to legal standing."
UCLA, California, United States
"A separate investigation, released last week by ProPublica and the Chronicle for Higher Education, also found that the Trump Justice Department was pressuring investigators to find evidence that UCLA had tolerated antisemitism, beyond established legal and procedural norms for such cases."
UC Davis, California, United States
"But the way we were pushed so hard to investigate, it was clear to so many of us that this was a political hit job that actually would end up not helping anyone."
Pomona College, California, United States
"Pomona College, a private school in Los Angeles that had experienced elevated levels of antisemitism after Oct. 7, quietly settled its own Title VI antisemitism investigation this month without any payouts to Trump."

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