FROM PRO PUBLICA via Higher Ed Dive: “According to former DOJ insiders, agency political appointees dispatched teams of career civil rights lawyers to California in March, pressuring them to rapidly ‘find’ evidence backing a preordained conclusion: that the UC system and four of its campuses had illegally tolerated antisemitism, which would violate federal civil rights statutes. The career attorneys eventually recommended a lawsuit against only UCLA, which pro-Palestinian protests in the spring of 2024 had rocked.” Read more here.