FLASHBACK: Dems defend Harvard, Columbia from Trump funding cuts, despite backing same legal precedent in 1983
Democrats Now defending elite universities such as Harvard and Colombia from threats to their federal financing and putting tax exemptions by claiming a violation of public policy despite entering once the same legal precedent that is used against them now.
The left defended the 1983 Bob Jones University against the United States, which supported the Tax Authority’s decision to cancel the tax advantages from religious The college that prohibited dating between races. At that time, the Democrats agreed to the federal government’s argument that no institution should receive public funds, even on a religious basis.
Now, as Trump administration It is cited that a severe precedent in urging the Tax Authority to cancel Harvard’s tax exemption on the allegations that the university is tolerated anti -Semitism and campus disorders, and accuses the left of managing the violation of the laws of freedom of expression to target ideological opponents.
Democrats are defending elite universities such as Harvard and Colombia from threats to their federal financing and their tax exemptions. (Reuters/Nicholas Fossi)
“The Pop Jones case is a strong precedent in the government “Joe Bishop-Heenchman, Vice President of Tax Policy and Lading at the National Tax Corporation, and Assistant researcher at the Kato Institute, for Fox News Digital in an interview.
“The Bob Jones precedent makes it difficult to win Harvard University. It will be much easier if this situation does not exist, because I think they will have to say that they are distinguished, and that this is politics,” he said. “If the administration can say it is a violation of public policy, the Bob Jones precedent follows.”
Today, Bob Jones University, a college in Christian liberal arts in Greenville, South Carolina, has a student of more than 2700. In 1983, she had policies prohibiting dating between races and marriage between students and expelling students who violated this policy. The Tax Authority said that due to these racist discriminatory policies, the school was not eligible Tax exemption.
The Trump administration announced that it freezes more than two billion dollars of scholarships and contracts after Harvard University said it will not comply with federal demands regarding anti -Semitism. (AP photos)
The school argued that the nullity of its exempt from taxes violates its religious freedom and that it is punished for adhering to it sincere beliefs. However, the government responded that organizations – through tax exemptions – should not support the applicable general policy, especially laws against racial discrimination.
supreme court Ruling from 8 to 1 in favor of the federal government in the case of the Reagan Teacher’s era. The judges decided that the Tax Authority allowed them to reject the state of tax exemption for schools that practice racial discrimination because it was against public policy. Although the school claimed religious freedom, combating racial discrimination was a “convincing government interest”.
“This is the message that Bob Jones said, but it may not be just a single university,” said Henshman.
The scenery of drones shows anti -Israel demonstrators to mobilize their camp in Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 14, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder Pictures today)
The Supreme Court considered that the institutions failed to provide “beneficial effects and urges the societal life” required to receive a special tax case supported by taxpayers, according to the Oyez judicial archive. Because of their ban on relations between races, schools were unable to meet this standard.
The judges concluded that racial discrimination in education is inconsistent with “basic national policy”. While recognizing the religious beliefs of schools, the court found that the government may limit religious freedoms when it is necessary to serve a “dominant government interest” in this case, prohibiting racial discrimination. The court also noted, “Not all burdens on religion are unconstitutional.”
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As such, the Trump administration argues that Harvard Dealing with anti -Semitism On campus, the university should be excluded from keeping the tax exemption from 501 (3). The Tax Authority is expected to make a final decision soon, according to a CNN report, which broke the story for the first time.
