Haley Van Erem, a longtime Justice Department Civil Rights Division attorney, alleged in a complaint released August 18, 2026, that senior officials at DOJ and HHS involuntarily reassigned staff and used compressed timelines for probes into antisemitism at Harvard, Columbia, and Brown. The complaint, made public by Rep. Jamie Raskin, claims some investigations lacked sufficient factual predicates and departed from standard due-process practices. CBS News reported the details from the complaint and accompanying letter from the Government Accountability Project.