A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s attempt to withdraw federal funds from the University of California, rebuking claims that the institution tolerates antisemitism and other discriminatory practices. The decision, marked by strong language, was delivered late Friday.

Judge Rita Lin of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction, supporting labor unions and groups representing the university’s faculty, students, and staff. She cited “overwhelming evidence” of the administration’s efforts to eliminate so-called “woke,” “left,” and “socialist” perspectives from prominent American universities.

“The administration, including the President and Vice President, has openly discussed a strategy of launching civil rights investigations into leading universities intending to cut their federal funding, effectively coercing them into altering their ideological standpoints,” Judge Lin stated.

She emphasized, “This very strategy is undeniably being implemented at the University of California.”

The White House and the U.S. Department of Justice did not respond to requests for comment when contacted after hours on Friday.

President Donald Trump has decried elite colleges as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism.

His administration has launched investigations of dozens of universities, claiming they have failed to end the use of racial preferences in violation of civil rights law. The Republican administration says diversity, equity and inclusion efforts discriminate against white and Asian American students.

The University of California is facing a series of civil rights investigations, according to Lin’s ruling.

In one case, the Trump administration over the summer demanded the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. UCLA was the first public university to be targeted by the administration over allegations of civil rights violations.

It has also frozen or paused federal funding over similar claims against private colleges, including Columbia University.

UC is in settlement talks with the administration and is not a party to the lawsuit before Lin, who was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, a Democrat. An email to the school system after hours on Friday was not immediately returned.

University of California President James B. Milliken has said the size of the UCLA fine would devastate the UC system, whose campuses are viewed as some of the top public colleges in the nation.

The administration has demanded UCLA comply with its views on gender identity and establish a process to make sure foreign students are not admitted if they are likely to engage in anti-American, anti-Western or antisemitic “disruptions or harassment,” among other requirements outlined in a settlement proposal made public in October.

The administration has previously struck deals with Brown University for $50 million and Columbia University for $221 million.

Lin cited declarations by UC faculty and staff that the administration’s moves were prompting them to stop teaching or researching topics they were “afraid were too ‘left’ or ‘woke.’”

“The undisputed record demonstrates that Defendants have engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment,” she wrote.

Lin’s injunction bars the administration from cancelling funding to the University of California based on alleged discrimination without giving notice to affected faculty and conducting a hearing, among other requirements.