Sign up for Antisemitism Decoded, the Forward’s guide through the news and noise about Jewish safety, brought to you biweekly by investigative journalist Arno Rosenfeld. In the name of protecting Jewish students, the Trump administration has launched dozens of investigations, stripped federal funding from some of the country’s most prominent schools and threatened more of the same for any institutions that don’t fall in line. While many at the conference supported reigning in left-leaning universities, some weren’t sure the White House’s approach respected free speech. It was striking to hear this from Cuccinielli, who otherwise shares almost no common ground with the liberal college professors and opponents of the Trump administration who have been saying the same thing for months. Ilya Somin, an originalist legal scholar from Geoge Mason, rejected the premise that the Trump administration was genuinely trying to improve the intellectual climate for Jews on college campuses.