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Columbia University Is Doing Trump’s Anti-Constitutional Dirty Work

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Palestine is the canary in the coal mine—testing how comfortable we are with incursions into our rights.

Mark Steiner interviews attorneys Amy Greer and Zal Stroff about Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil's detention by ICE without warrant. Episode exposes how Trump administration is weaponizing Title IX and Title VI civil rights statutes to suppress Palestinian solidarity movements and dissent. Discusses institutional failure of Columbia University and examines broader constitutional implications as test case for American democracy.

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A forceful legal conversation about how federal pressure can turn private institutions into tools of constitutional harm.

The conversation frames the Mahmoud Khalil case as a sharp test of how federal pressure can move through private institutions once they are pulled into cooperation. Amy E. Greer and Zal K.

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You want the state-compulsion theory behind the Columbia case and the Mahmoud Khalil fight.

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