The American judge ordered Trump’s administration on Wednesday to overturn cuts at the University of Harvard. The judge ruled that US President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully ended a grant of approximately $ 2.2 billion granted to Harvard University and can no longer reduce research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.
Harvard case
On June 30, 2025, Trump’s administration accused Harvard of violating the civil rights of her Jewish and Israeli students, and threatened to cut off all federal financing if the university did not take urgent measures.
Harvard was at the forefront of Donald Trump’s campaign against top universities after resisting his challenges to undergo his supervision of his curriculum, staffing, recruiting students and “view”.
Among the earliest steps that the administration took against Harvard was to abolish hundreds of grants granted to university scientists because the school was unable to do so to deal with the harassment of Jewish students on their campus.
Harvard also sued and claimed that Trump’s administration had retreated against him contrary to the rights of free speech after refusing to meet the requirements of officials to advance control of who hired and who teaches.
Great victory for Harvard
The latest decision of the US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston meant a great legal victory to Harvard because he was trying to reduce an agreement that could end the multiple White House conflict with the oldest and richest university in the country.
The administration insisted that her step was legally justified over the alleged Harvard’s alleged inability to protect Jewish and Israeli students in the middle of protests against the Israeli War in Gaza.
Harvard refused to claim and said that Trump was instead focused on controlling the prestigious school, acceptance and curriculum.
The stream of financing Harvard on Harvard forced the implementation of freezing and at the same time stopped ambitious research programs, especially in the field of public health and medical spheres – they stop that experts warned the risk of American life.
The decisions that can be appealed could shape conversations on the settlement, which allegedly takes place between Harvard and the White House, under which the university would pay the amount to recognize Trump’s demands, and the federal financing was restored in return.
Other universities have concluded a similar agreement with the administration.
“The court will release and postpone freezing orders and letters of termination as a violation of the first amendment,” said Federal Judge Boston Allison Burroughs according to AFP.
“All freezing and termination of Harvard financing made according to freezing orders and letters of termination of 14 April 2025 are released and canceled,” the command said.
The decision also prohibits administration from using the same reasoning to reduce financing in the future.
“Trump could return … ‘
Ray Brescia, a professor of the Law School in Albany, told AFP that, despite the great legal victory on Wednesday, Harvard can still follow Columbia University and cope with the administration.
“(Trump) could return to the negotiating table and offer Harvard a better solution than they offer. I think there was talk of $ 500 million,” he said.
“People have settled cases all the time for many reasons, although they think they are 100 percent okay.”
Harvard did not respond to the request for comment.
“Smokescreen” for University ‘Assault’
In his decision, Burroughs pointed out to Harvard’s own admission in legal submissions that anti -Semitism had occurred on the campus – but she said that the reduction of administration funding would not affect the situation.
“It is clear that even based solely on Harvard’s own acceptance, that Harvard has been plagued by anti -Semitism in recent years and could (and had) do a better job in solving the problem,” she wrote.
“This means that there is only a small connection between research affected by the end of the grant and anti -Semitism.”
The judge, appointed by the democratic former President Barack Obama, said Trump “used anti -Semitism as a smoke screen for a targeted, ideologically motivated attack on the leading universities of the country”.
(With the entry from agencies)
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