Judge: Trump's Harvard funding freeze illegal

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A federal judge in Boston ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to unfreeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard.

“All freezes and terminations of funding to Harvard made pursuant to the Freeze Orders and Termination Letters on or after April 14, 2025 are vacated and set aside,” U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs said in the order.

The 84-page order conceded that Harvard has been "plagued by antisemitism" in recent years and should "have done a better job of dealing with the issue," but it said that "there is, in reality, little connection between the research affected by the grant terminations and antisemitism."

"In fact, 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, and did so in a way that runs afoul of the APA, the First Amendment and Title VI," Burroughs wrote.

The Administrative Procedure Act, or APA, gives federal courts oversight over all agency actions; Title VI prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin.

Harvard and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Trump administration said it will appeal the “egregious decision.”

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-orders-trump-administration-unfreeze-nearly-22-billion-federal-g-rcna228926

 

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All these judges everywhere are the last thing standing between democracy and complete fascism..