Federal prosecutors on behalf of the Trump admin are charging 8 pro-Palestinian activists associated with the University of Michigan with federal felony conspiracy.
This is another fascist escalation in how the federal government handles campus protests.
The defendants include current students, former students, and former staff members who face charges that could put them in prison for years.
Trump and his admin are trying to reframe divestment pressure on elite institutions as a form of "terror" instead of seeing it as a struggle for liberation.
It's a very clear weaponization of our nation's Justice Department for political reasons to suppress campus protests.