President Donald Trump and his minions have just deployed new weapons in the war with higher education. The Justice Department announced Monday that it would use the False Claims Act to ensure that it is prohibited from diversity, equity and inclusive efforts, that is, it is not hanging from the Deibogeyman.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who got his high-level government job because he was one of the president’s numerous criminal defense lawyers, calls this “.”Civil Rights Fraud Initiative,” this is a nasty name that sounds like an initiative to create civil rights fraud. This may be true here, given how false claims work.
False claims law The government will allow the government to recover up to three times the damage from the submission of a because it has speculated a false claim to the government. It’s not really a law like a civil rights power, but instead it’s used to collect money and so on. Managed Health Providers and Defense Contractors Someone who tried to fraud the government.
However, the FCA has undoubtedly a unique feature that is why the administration has chosen to be the backbone of its efforts to attack liberal elites. This allows the private sector to file private lawsuits and maintain up to 30% of the government’s money recovered. Usually, the person who file a lawsuit is a whistleblower. For example, some companies that know about scams.
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You may wonder what false claims and frauds arise because your local university has read a book by a gay person or it still has a Black Student Union. The answer is, obviously, not that. But following the tortured logic of DOJ on this, the idea is:
- Step 1: Colleges and universities will win federal funds. Well, this is true. So far, so good.
- Step 2: Some of these universities still have Day, which is collaborative with Trump. It has been declared illegal. Now, there are no laws on diversity, so no matter how much the administration wants, it’s not very good.
- Step 3: Some of these federal funds were inappropriately used by illegal DEIs. Well, now we really lost the plot.
For the purposes of discussion, let’s agree with Blanche that schools are secretly using federal money for diversity initiatives. To be precise, do you think it actually does? False claims law cases collect huge amounts $2.9 billion Even in 2024 alone, actual false claims and fraud must be made. Yes, the government can get triple damages, but the recovery is still based on the actual amount that was falsely claimed. The lawsuit must show that the school has taken the federal amount and then used the money for a forbidden DEI initiative, not for the purpose it was given.
Conservatives probably believe that the university is spending millions on secret day efforts, but they are not. And it’s even more unlikely that a university allocates federal funds for one purpose and instead uses them for all of its top secret DEIs. It is not clear that Blanche or anyone else in the administration understands that false claims laws are not a mechanism that allows the government to withhold funds from schools or to contain their nails.
But let’s not let facts and laws get in the way of ideological bullying here. DOJ makes this a signature initiative Note Blanche explains that it will be handled by lawyers from both the fraud section of the Civil Division and the Civil Rights Division. All 93 U.S. Attorneys’ offices need to identify staff attorneys to address this. Coordinating this with the DOJ regularly requires education, health and welfare, urban development and labor sectors. Oh, and there are also “partnerships” with the state attorney general and local law enforcement agencies.
Blanche knows that villages are needed to eradicate diversity. So the memo says it “strongly encourages” private litigation as the DOJ may not be able to identify “all examples of civil rights fraud.” Well, that probably doesn’t identify an example of civil rights fraud. If all of this sounds like the administration is committed to paying hard oddity to bring about a frivolous whistleblower lawsuit against the university, that’s probably because.
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Conservatives I really, really hate it Higher education is because conservatives need an uninformed population for right-wing policies to succeed, so schools have a bad habit of teaching people to think critically. The Trump administration will continue to attack universities and universities, along with everything it has, no matter how inappropriate tools like false claims laws may be.
It’s melancholy to see another way in which the administration is completely distorting the notion of civil rights enforcement. When Trump took office in January, DOJ It stopped immediately Most civil rights activities, including suspension consent orders A long history of violent racism.
As far as Trump is concerned, civil rights mean something like having a DOJ Investigate Because the mayor of Chicago was too dark. And now, it means placing our country’s colleges and universities even more straightforward in the right crosshairs.
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