Judge Delays Order to Force Penn to Turn Over List of Jews on Campus

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Judge Delays Order to Force Penn to Turn Over List of Jews on Campus

The Trump administration had said it needed the information for an antisemitism investigation.

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Alan Blinder

April 27, 2026,

2:27 p.m. ET

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A federal judge agreed Monday to delay his order that the University of Pennsylvania comply with a Trump administration subpoena for information about Jews on campus.

The judge, Gerald J. Pappert of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, had ruled in March that Penn had until this Friday to turn over the records that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sought as a part of an investigation into antisemitism.

But as the deadline neared, Judge Pappert agreed to pause his order while Penn pursued its appeal. Monday’s ruling means that Penn is no longer facing an imminent deadline to share, among other records, the names and contact information it has for people who worked in the university’s Jewish studies program or were members of “clubs, organizations and recreation groups” that were related to “the Jewish religion, faith, ancestry/national origin.”

Neither Penn nor the E.E.O.C. immediately commented on the ruling.

The clash between the E.E.O.C. and Penn has emerged as a crucial test of the Trump administration’s tactics to scrutinize and pressure universities. Although the commission opened an inquiry into Penn in 2023, it was not until last year, after President Trump took office, that the investigation gathered force.

Penn spent much of last year privately rebuffing some of the commission’s demands. The dispute became public in November, though, when the E.E.O.C. filed a lawsuit over a subpoena. The commission has insisted that its push for information was not unusual, and that it needed to be able to reach people at Penn who might know about violations of civil rights laws.

Penn countered that the administration had made a “disconcerting” and unconstitutional demand. Some people at the university have suggested that the government’s approach to collecting information about Jews on campus was reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

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