Harvard beats Trump as judge orders US to restore $2.6 billion in funding

A federal judge sided with Harvard University in its lawsuit against the Trump administration, ordering the US government to un-freeze about $2.6 billion in funding.

The judge’s ruling also criticized the Supreme Court for issuing orders that seem to set precedents aside “without much explanation.” Like various other rulings against the Trump administration, the Harvard case will be appealed and could end up at the highest court.

The Trump administration said it pulled Harvard’s funding because of antisemitism at the university. But “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,” US District Judge Allison Burroughs wrote in yesterday’s ruling.

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