The Trump administration has frozen more than $500 million in federal funding to UCLA.

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A coalition of California education unions and faculty associations is suing the Trump administration to challenge what they say is “the illegal and coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system and the rights of their members,” the American Association of University Professors announced Tuesday.

The coalition comprises 19 groups—including the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers and 10 University of California campus faculty associations—and is represented by the legal organization Democracy Forward.

“We will not stand by as the Trump administration destroys one of the largest public university higher education systems in the country and

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