In a huge win for Harvard University, a federal judge has ruled the Trump administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion from the Ivy League school.
BREAKING: A federal judge reverses the Trump administration’s cut of billions of dollars to Harvard University.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) September 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
From AP News:
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs sided with the Ivy League school, ruling the cuts amounted to illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands for changes to its governance and policies.
The government had tied the freezes at Harvard to delays in dealing with antisemitism on its campus, but the judge said the federally funded research had little connection to antisemitism.
“A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities,” Burroughs wrote.
The Trump administration has also tried to prevent the school from hosting foreign students.
Read more here.
NEWS: Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding. (Bloomberg)
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) September 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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