Washington Examiner
Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist who was detained by the Trump administration last week, has asked a federal court to block Columbia University from sending his student disciplinary records to a House committee.
The lawsuit argues that the committee’s request and the school’s compliance would violate Khalil’s First Amendment rights. Last month, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce sent a letter to interim Columbia President Katrina Armstrong and the university board chairs stating that “numerous antisemitic incidents” had taken place and demanding disciplinary records connected to 11 incidents from the last school year.
Khalil is joined by seven unnamed students in the case. The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court in Manhattan and names Columbia and Armstrong, as well as its sister school Barnard College and Barnard President Laura Ann Rosenbury. It also names the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI).
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