Judge blocks federal freeze on California education funding

(The Center Square) - A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from freezing University of California's federal funding over alleged violation of anti-discrimination laws. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction last week. Nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden, Lin ruled that the federal government is barred from restricting funds to UC because the university system does not "endorse the administration," the ruling stated. In her decision, Lin wrote that a UC plaintiff had provided "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration was "engaged in a concerted campaign to purge 'woke,' 'left' and 'socialist' viewpoints from our country's leading universities." “The undisputed record demonstrates that Defendants have engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment,” Lin added. In August, the Trump administration froze over $500 million in federal research funding over claim