{"id":251763,"date":"2026-07-25T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251763\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:23:26","slug":"trump-administration-to-drop-subpoena-seeking-information-of-upenn-jewish-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251763\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration to drop subpoena seeking information of UPenn Jewish employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Trump administration has dropped its subpoena seeking identification and personal contact information of Jewish employees at UPenn.<\/p>\n<p>According to a resolution both parties agreed to on Thursday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will &#8220;not take any further measures to enforce&#8221; the subpoena. <\/p>\n<p>The EEOC said it would&#8217;ve use this information to interview potential victims or witnesses of alleged antisemitic acts that took place at the university following the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. <\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS COVERAGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/judge-says-penn-must-turn-over-information-about-jewish-employees-in-discrimination-probe-university-of-pennsylvania-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Judge says Penn must turn over information about Jewish employees in discrimination probe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPenn challenged the subpoena, arguing that it raised privacy and First Amendment concerns. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, Pennsylvania Senators Dave McCormick and John Fetterman said they &#8220;fully support&#8221; the EEOC&#8217;s investigations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No student or faculty member should face illegal discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or national origin,&#8221; they said in a joint statement in April. &#8220;We have long spoken out against the despicable treatment Jewish students and faculty have faced since October 7, including on University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Trump administration has dropped its subpoena seeking identification and personal contact information of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-251763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}