Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration

A national justice connected Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration's freeze of $2.2 cardinal successful grant funds for Harvard University implicit concerns astir antisemitism connected field and different issues was illegal.

Judge Allison Burroughs agreed with Harvard's arguments that the medication imposed the backing frost successful retaliation for the Ivy League university's refusal to capitulate to demands for reforms that violated First Amendment protections nether the Constitution.

Burroughs' ruling successful U.S. District Court successful Massachusetts vacates freezing orders affecting Harvard and bars anyone successful the Trump medication from enforcing those orders.

The medication froze the grants to Harvard connected April 14, hours aft the assemblage flatly rejected demands that it extremity its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and surface planetary students for ideological biases, including antisemitism.

Harvard President Alan Garber astatine the clip said successful a enactment to the assemblage community, "No authorities — careless of which enactment is successful powerfulness — should dictate what backstage universities tin teach, whom they tin admit and hire, and which areas of survey and enquiry they tin pursue."

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