Grand Canyon U Celebrates End of Lawsuit From the FTC Started Under Biden Admin
“This case, which we inherited from the previous administration, was filed nearly two years ago and has suffered losses in two motions to dismiss”
Grand Canyon University is a Christian school. Is there any wonder why they were targeted under the Biden admin?
FOX News reports:
Largest Christian university celebrates FTC dropping lawsuit, ending years of ‘lawfare’ from Biden admin
The largest Christian college in the United States has been cleared of federal allegations after university officials said the school was unjustly targeted by the Biden administration.
Grand Canyon University announced last week that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to drop its lawsuit against the school.
In 2023, the FTC under the Biden administration filed suit in federal court against GCU, its marketer Grand Canyon Education, Inc., and its president and CEO, Brian Mueller, claiming the defendants used deceptive advertising and engaged in illegal telemarketing. In addition to providing marketing services, Grand Canyon Education, Inc., provides recruiting and support services to the university.
“This case, which we inherited from the previous administration, was filed nearly two years ago and has suffered losses in two motions to dismiss,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said. “These losses are compounded by recent events: Grand Canyon secured a victory over the Department of Education in a related matter before the Ninth Circuit; the Department of Education rescinded a massive fine levied on related grounds; and the Internal Revenue Service confirmed that Grand Canyon University is properly claiming 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation designation.”
The Biden FTC previously complained that the Arizona-based school misled prospective doctoral students about the amount of time it would take to finish its accelerated program, deceptively marketed the school as a nonprofit, and illegally called prospective students who submitted their contact information on the school’s website but requested not to be contacted.
The Department of Education under the Biden administration denied GCU’s nonprofit recognition after it was approved by the Arizona Board for Private Postsecondary Education, the Internal Revenue Service, the State of Arizona, and the Higher Learning Commission.
Mueller said the FTC dropping the charges ends “years of coordinated lawfare by government officials under the Biden Administration against the largest Christian university in the country.”
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There are plenty of overcooked Biden lawsuits inside DOJ that need immediate termination in a free administration. Trump and Bondi have quashed several.
Unfortunately, none of those include any of the prosecutions in which the federal government and the BATF egregiously continue to violate citizens’ Second Amendment rights.
Patrick Adamiak, Gerard Manley, and Larry Vickers each had their houses raided by BATF, and items including firearms and firearms parts confiscated. In each case, none of the items found or confiscated were illegal. Manley remains under active investigation; Vickers is incarcerated during his prosecution; and Adamiak was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
In two terms, Trump has yet to throw us a single, freaking bone.
Yes, someone with access to Trump needs to bring this to his attention. He should have commuted Adamiak’s sentence in his inaugural speech. (I’d say pardoned, but I’d prefer to see him exonerated in court, and the ATF witness prosecuted for perjury.) But he’s probably completely unaware of it.
ASU and likely every other .edu makes misleading claims about the value of their education. But the government likes to leave other parts of the government alone
Q – did GCU do what it was accused of or not?
We have adversarial processes to help determine the truth.
Now we’ll never know.