UC Berkeley has provided the personal information of roughly 160 students, staff and faculty to the federal government in a directive from the UC Office of the President.
civil rights violations for impinging on protestor/employees right of free political speech which clearly do not violate any of the exceptions to free speech. The feds and berkeley admins would have to prove that holding a sign that supports palestinian civil rights, freedoms, and ending a violent conflict violates Title 6 of the civil rights act as antisemitism. I doubt the government will be able to pull that off, but its about time they tried it and got their arse kicked for it. It’ll be a nice precedent.
Unreasonable search and seizure of their “papers, houses, persons, and effects” by the government.
Shortly they will likely be a party to malicious prosecution and baseless retaliation, which will be tried in a California court, where they will absolutely win.
I wouldnt place any bets that they “violated no laws”.
Find me the law they broke. I don’t believe they broke any laws and only committed ethics violations.
I wouldnt place any bets that they “violated no laws”.