A district judge’s decision on Friday to block the Trump administration from imposing a $1.2 billion fine as part of its proposed settlement agreement with the University of California “risks creating a dangerous separation of powers crisis,” Gerard Filitti, senior counsel at the Lawfare Project, told JNS.

The decision from Rita Lin, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, came in response to a lawsuit filed in September by unions and groups representing UC professors, students and staff against the Trump administration. The suit responded to the administration freezing $584 million in federal funding.

In her order , Lin stated that the members of the organizations have “shown irreparable harm” as a result of the Trump administration’s actions. She

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