The lawsuit marks the second time in less than a month that the #Trump admin
has sued a #university over “civil rights” violations.

Last month, the #DOJ said #UCLA had tolerated “grossly antisemitic acts & systematically ignored cries for help from its own terrified Jewish & Israeli employees.”

The DOJ said that UCLA had “turned a blind eye” — the same phrase used in Friday’s lawsuit against Harvard [copy & paste.]

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #education #RevengePolitics

“There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass & pressure Powell either to yield to the president or to resign & make way for a Fed Chair who will,” Judge #Boasberg wrote. “On the other side of the scale, the government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the president.”

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A second round of subpoenas went in January to several former government officials and sought years of documents, including government records on the 2016 #Russia investigation the people would no longer have access to, two people familiar with the investigation told CNN recently. At least one former intelligence community official has been interviewed in the probe, one source said.

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At first, the prosecutors gathered documents late last year from #JohnBrennan & other former intelligence officials. The subpoenas specifically sought information about a 2017 intelligence report on Russian meddling in the election that Brennan worked on, & which he spoke about in his 2023 congressional testimony.

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#DOJ officials & #USAttorney Jason Reding Quiñones made a push in January to bring a case against him, according to two people briefed on the matter, but some career prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida resisted the pressure.

Those career prosecutors are facing a new wave of pressure now, one of the sources said, & are struggling to delay bringing the case to a grand jury.

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Prosecutors in the Miami #USattorney’s office have been leading the #JohnBrennan probe, which relates to testimony the ex-intelligence chief gave to #Congress in 2023 & the #Russia investigation years earlier, issuing 2 rounds of subpoenas to several witnesses.

Yet the push for charges has run into career prosecutors raising concerns in southern Florida, with some viewing the potential case as relatively weak.

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