Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn
Source: New York Times
March 31, 2026 Updated 3:41 p.m. ET
The Trump administration was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about Jews on campus as part of a federal investigation into discrimination at the school, a federal judge decided Tuesday. The government’s investigation had unified Penn leaders with Jewish students and faculty in opposition to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s subpoena. Many on campus drew parallels between the government’s approach and methods deployed in Nazi Germany.
But the Trump administration has said that its request was typical for discrimination investigations, and Judge Gerald J. Pappert of Philadelphia’s Federal District Court agreed on Tuesday. He gave Penn until May 1 to comply with the administration’s subpoena, though the ruling appeared unlikely to quell the debates around how the administration has pressured top American universities.
In a 32-page ruling, Judge Pappert, an Obama appointee, wrote that Penn’s constitutional claims were “easily dispensed with” and that the government’s subpoena was valid. “Though ineptly worded, the request had an understandable purpose — to obtain in a narrowly tailored way, as opposed to seeking information on all university employees, information on individuals in Penn’s Jewish community who could have experienced or witnessed antisemitism in the workplace,” he wrote.
The judge, however, said that the university would not have to reveal any employee’s connection to “a specific Jewish-related organization.” Penn did not immediately comment.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-jews-penn-list-judge.html
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Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XLfjh20DJdEBHar8HghB4cqqlFZzp8IP/view
Obama judge but I *know* that will be immediately appealed.
Article updated.
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March 31, 2026, 2:53 p.m. ET
The Trump administration was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about Jewish people on campus as part of a federal investigation into discrimination at the school, a federal judge decided Tuesday.
The ruling clears a hurdle for the Trump administration as it targets elite schools over accusations of antisemitism. Judge Gerald J. Pappert of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia issued the decision, which largely sided with the government, writing that Penn's "constitutional claims are easily dispensed with."
He gave Penn until May 1 to comply with the subpoena, though he said that the university would not have to reveal any employee's connection to a specific Jewish-related organization. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been pursuing an inquiry into potential workplace discrimination against Jewish faculty and staff at Penn, an Ivy League school in Philadelphia, since 2023.
While university officials said they welcomed the investigation, they balked last year after the government issued a subpoena seeking names and phone numbers for members of Jewish groups on campus. The school said much of the information that the government had requested is not collected. Students and faculty groups also condemned the government's demand for a list of Jews, drawing a parallel to methods deployed in Nazi Germany.
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Earlier this month, Guy Wolf, the president of the Jewish Cultural Centre in Liège, Belgium, awoke to alarming news: overnight, an IED was detonated outside his local synagogue, blowing out the windows and setting the front doors and nearby cars alight.
The attack on the historic temple was the first such incident in the city since the Holocaust, according to local officials. Though Wolf had heard about a rise in antisemitic attacks in other cities, he was taken aback that it happened in Liège. There are only about 500 Jewish people in this city of half a million, the synagogue isn’t particularly active and the Jews are well-integrated. “If you attack the Jewish community here,” Wolf said, “you are attacking the city of Liège, because we are completely inside of it.”
The whole thing has left the 68-year-old Wolf wondering: If Jews can’t feel safe here, can they feel safe anywhere?
This is an increasingly urgent question for Jewish communities as antisemitism rises across the globe, and particularly in the West where Jews have lived in relative peace since the end of World War II. But a spasm of antisemitic violence and hostile rhetoric stemming from conflicts in the Middle East is making many Jews feel increasingly isolated from their homelands and their neighbors.
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From "IBM and the Holocaust"
https://explaininghistory.org/2025/09/30/ibm-and-the-holocaust-technology-as-a-force-multiplier-for-genocide/
The Hollerith card was a death sentence.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ibm-nazis-ww2
"It's just a census. Nothing could possibly go wrong"
Reminder: Elon Musk has passwords to, and back-doors planted in every major government computing system.
And he would NEVER misuse the information.
How IBM Helped The Nazis Carry Out The Holocaust
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ibm-nazis-ww2/3
Information in the hands of a MURDEROUS fascist government WILL BE MISUSED.
THEY CANNOT MISUSE information that THEY DO NOT HAVE.
"It's just a census"
You wouldn't recognize the area. Between Penn (and its hospital), Drexel, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), that whole area of West Philly has been completely transformed (with the old PGH building and the old Civic Center, demolished)! 
That site (which used to be the Sunoco and American Petrolium refineries) is being repurposed for other uses now after the cleanup.
I think what is left for refineries are now near Marcus Hook outside of the city along the Delaware River.
And when I was a kid, I used to have a PSFS savings account and even had a few stints as a "banker" when they would bring the little machines into the school once a month for kids to deposit and the deposits were registered in passbooks like the below!
The building is designated historic as one of the first "modern style" skyscrapers (built in 1932) and the bank itself was the nation's first (consumer) savings bank back in 1816, so it would have had its 210th anniversary this year (but it was merged into other banks years ago). The building is a hotel now (but the sign is designated historic so is still there) -
Used to be nothing was taller than Billy Penn's hat on the statue on top of City Hall. Now just about everything is!
No - they will accuse them of trying to implement "Sharia Law"!!!1111!!!1!!! 
I read somewhere this worked.