Trump unlawfully cancelled $2.2bn in Harvard research grants, judge rules | Trump administration
On Wednesday, a federal judge gave a grant of about $ 2.2 billion at the grants of Donald Trump’s administration to Harvard University, and no longer cut a research fund to Ivy League school.
The decision of the US regional judge in Boston, Allison Burroughs, pointed out a great legal victory for Harvard for aiming to make an agreement with the White House’s oldest and richest university in the country.
Cambridge, Massachusetts -based school, has become a central focus of Federal financing campaign to force the change in US universities, which Trump said that it was kept by anti -Semitic and “radical left” ideologies.
In July, the other Three Ivy League schools agreed with the administration, who agreed to pay $ 220 million to restore the federal research money polished because of allegations that the university allowed to declare on campus.
As in Columbia, the Trump administration took action against Harvard about the pro -Palestinian protest movement, which wandered the campus and other universities after Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s war in Gaza.
At the 26 August cabinet meeting, Trump demanded that Harvard pay as a part of a settlement to pay “something less than $ 500 million”. “It was very bad,” he told the education secretary Linda McMahon. “Don’t negotiate.”
Among the oldest actions of the administration against Harvard were the cancellation of hundreds of grants given to researchers on the grounds that they could not do enough to do the harassment of Jewish students on the campus of the school.
Since then, the Trump administration has tried to prevent international students from going to school; He threatened Harvard’s accreditation status; And he found that he had violated the Federal Civil Rights Law and opened the door of cutting more funds.
Harvard said that the campus was taking steps to ensure that the Jewish and Israeli students, whom he accepted the experienced “infertile and understandable” treatment after the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza.
However, Harvard President Alan Garber said that the demands of the administration went far beyond addressing anti -Semitism, and that the “intellectual conditions ve on the campus were trying to organize by checking who hired and who taught.
These demands, which came from a management duty force in April 11, also included calls to restructure the governance of the private university, to change the ideological balance of the perspectives and to change the recruitment and acceptance practices in order to end some academic programs.
After rejecting these demands, Harvard said that the administration began to violate the Free Speech Protection of the First Amendment of the US Constitution with the sudden interruption of the school.
Burroughs, the appointment of democratic President Barack Obama, prevented Harvard from stopping the ability of Harvard to host international students who constitute about one -quarter of his student body.
