Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn

[Coventina]

The Trump administration was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about Jews on campus as part of a federal investigation into discrimination at the school, a federal judge decided Tuesday.

The government’s investigation had unified Penn leaders with Jewish students and faculty members in opposition to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s subpoena. Many on campus drew parallels between the government’s approach and methods deployed in Nazi Germany.

But the Trump administration has said that its request was typical for discrimination investigations to seek potential victims and witnesses, and Judge Gerald J. Pappert of Philadelphia’s Federal District Court agreed on Tuesday. He gave Penn until May 1 to comply with the administration’s subpoena, though the ruling appeared unlikely to quell the debates around how the administration has pressured top American universities.

In a 32-page ruling, Judge Pappert, an Obama appointee, appeared to hint at the discomfort that the government’s subpoena had prompted and at the accusations that the E.E.O.C. had gone much too far with its tactics. He wrote, though, that Penn’s constitutional claims were “easily dispensed with” and that the government’s subpoena was valid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-jews-penn-list-judge.html?

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Because making "lists of Jews" for the government always ends well, doesn't it?