Here is the latest way the Trump administration is attacking colleges
President Donald Trump and his minions just deployed a new weapon in their war on higher education. The Department of Justice announced Monday that it will use the False Claims Act to ensure no forbidden diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts—aka the DEI bogeyman—are hanging around.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who got his high-level government job because he was one of the president’s numerous criminal defense attorneys, is calling this the “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative,” which is an awkward name that makes it sound like an initiative to create civil rights fraud. Which, given how the False Claims Act works, just might be the case here.
The False Claims Act allows the government to recover up to three times its supposed damages from the submission of a, you guessed it, false claim to the government. It is not really a civil rights powerhouse kind of law, but instead used for things like recovering money from managed health care providers and defense contractors who attempted to defraud the government.
But the FCA has a unique feature that is undoubtedly why the administration is choosing to make it the backbone of its efforts to attack the liberal elite: It allows private citizens to bring a private lawsuit and keep up to 30% of any government money recovered. Typically, the person bringing the suit is a whistleblower—someone at a company who is aware of the fraud, for example.
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