Trump intervened on campus free speech matters early in his tenure, threatening in 2017 to revoke the University of California, Berkeley’s, federal funding following violent demonstrations that halted a planned speech there by far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos.
The Justice Department later supported a lawsuit brought by conservative groups against UC Berkeley’s events policy. It also backed one against the University of Michigan, where a civil liberties watchdog sued, arguing the state flagship’s rules on harassment and bullying were unconstitutional. Both lawsuits were settled.
