Columbia University faculty groups have filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration. One lawsuit challenges the administration's effort to tighten rules on campus protests and put a Middle Eastern studies department under outside oversight. The other lawsuit seeks to block the deportation of non-citizen anti-Israel campus activists. The lawsuits accuse the administration of trampling on the right to free speech and academic autonomy. The Trump administration has accused Columbia of having antisemitic harassment on campus and demanded that it place the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Studies department into academic receivership.