A series of lawsuits have been filed against the Biden-Harris administration regarding antisemitic demonstrations that roiled college campuses following Iranian-backed Hamas' terrorist attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The four lawsuits were filed Friday by America First Legal, whose president, Stephen Miller, was a senior adviser in the Trump administration. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is the main Biden-Harris administration agency named in the lawsuits, but the State Department, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Interior and Secret Service also are included.
One lawsuit alleges the DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland unlawfully failed to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) against Students for Justice in Palestine, American Muslims for Palestine, "and other agents of Hamas."
Another lawsuit faults the DOJ for failing to disclose records revealing whether political bias caused it to ignore federal crimes committed "by the pro-Hamas network," and accuses DHS and the State Department for failing to disclose records "revealing there is a stand-down order in place preventing the enforcement of laws relating to the ineligibility for admission to aliens who support terrorist organizations."
A third accuses the DOJ, State Department, Department of Interior and Secret Service for failing to disclose records revealing whether decisions by the Biden-Harris administration failed to secure the Watergate Hotel, where Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu stayed in advance of his address to Congress in July, and allowed for assaults against law enforcement and desecration of monuments in the District of Columbia.
A fourth accuses the State Department of failing to disclose calendar entries and communications of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, his chief of staff Suzy George, State Department Counselor Tom Sullivan, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, and Hady Amr, the department's Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs, relating to Israel and its neighbors in the region.
"For over a year, the same Biden-Harris administration that aggressively prosecuted American citizens for peacefully praying outside abortion clinics and mobilized an all-of-government effort against parents for protesting racial and gender indoctrination in our public schools has supinely allowed leftist and Islamic radicals to break our laws, intimidate our citizens, and commit acts of vandalism and violence," Reed Rubinstein, America First Legal senior vice president, said Monday in a news release.
America First Legal said the lawsuit was spurred after the House Education and Workforce Committee released findings last week of a yearlong investigation on how antisemitism engulfed college campuses while administrators put the interests of terrorist sympathizers over the safety of Jewish students, faculty, and staff.
"Thanks to House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx [R-Va.] and her staff, the rotten core of the higher education industry has been exposed," Rubinstein said. "We expect that today's actions will expose the very same rot at the core of the Biden-Harris Administration."
Newsmax reached out to the DOJ and State Department for comment.
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