A court hearing is set to begin Monday in Harvard University’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over its freeze of the institution’s federal funding.
The lawyers representing Harvard in U.S. District Court in Boston will argue that the administration’s freeze of more than $2 billion in grants and contracts is illegal and should be reversed, NPR reported.
The attorneys wrote in court filings that the federal funding cuts threaten vital research in medicine, science, and technology. The lawsuit’s goal is to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding “as leverage to gain control of academic decisionmaking at Harvard.”
The Trump administration has said that Harvard’s federal funding was frozen because the Ivy League school violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to address antisemitism on campus.
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