NEW YORK (AP) – Columbia University must give detained activist Mahmoud Khalil and other students 30 days of notice period before they hand over more documents to the congress while the anti -Semitism is investigating at university campuses, a federal court in New York, ruled Friday.
But the American district judge Arun Subramanian stopped blocking Manhattan University to meet congress requests, as lawyers were looking for the activists.
Instead, the judge in Manhattan said that the student could change their request for a temporarily limiting order and can be restored if they tackle certain issues in court.
US Rep. Tim Walberg, a Republican by Michigan who is chairman of the home education and personnel committee, called the decision a “victory for credible supervision.” He said that a judicial order would interfere with a continuous conference investigation.
“The work to investigate anti -Semitism at the university campuses of our nation and to develop legislative solutions will continue,” he said in a statement. “Our committee will not be unemployed if a wave of anti -Semitic threats flood our colleges and universities and disrupts the education of students.”
Lawyers for Khalil and the other students said the decision means that they can continue to pursue their legal fight against conference efforts.
“We now know that the government is testing the limits of the first amendment, and the limits of what we as a society,” the lawyers wrote in a statement. “We, as a collective, must be together against these illegal raids in our protected speech.”
Khalil, a graduate student in Columbia who is confronted with deportation for his role in the campus protests against Israel, and other students had asked the order after submitting a lawsuit that the Huiscommissie had submitted by disciplinary data for students involved in demonstrations.
The group had also asked the judge to prevent the Trump government from continuing with threats to terminate the federal financing of Columbia and the school to meet the government's requirements for policy changes. But Subramanian said they had to explain which they had to challenge these movements.
The judge noted that some student records had already been transferred, but that Columbia says that the documents have been scrubbed from all identifying information and that it no longer wants to produce records.
A Columbia spokesperson did not immediately comment.
