This post was updated Nov. 5 at 1:02 a.m. A coalition of 25 student organizations filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump that alleged research funding suspensions to UCLA and subsequent settlement demands violated employees’ free speech. The student organizations – filing under the name Students for Higher Education – said in the brief that the federal government’s “ruinous cuts to federal research funding,” its $1.2 billion settlement demand and attacks on international students obstruct the constitutionally protected free speech of students and faculty members. Read more...
Photo: A copy of the amicus brief filed by Students for Higher Education is pictured in front of Kerckhoff Hall. The coalition of student organizations and five USAC offices filed the brief in support of a UC faculty lawsuit against President Donald Trump, alleging violations of free speech. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)






