Posted on 04/21/2025 3:15:46 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Harvard University initiated legal action on Monday against the Trump administration, accusing it of leveraging federal funding to impose sweeping and unconstitutional demands on the institution, reports The Harvard Crimson.
The lawsuit, filed in a US district court, alleges that the federal government’s decision to freeze billions in research funding constitutes an unlawful attempt to control the university’s internal operations.
The legal complaint challenges a recent $2.2 billion funding freeze, as well as an anticipated additional $1 billion in cuts reportedly planned by the administration. Harvard contends that the freeze is part of a broader campaign to coerce compliance with political demands, including federal oversight of academic content, personnel decisions, and ideological vetting of international students.
“The tradeoff put to Harvard and other universities is clear: Allow the Government to micromanage your academic institution or jeopardize the institution’s ability to pursue medical breakthroughs, scientific discoveries, and innovative solutions,” the university’s legal team stated in the complaint, as quoted by The Harvard Crimson.
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They could just follow Federal law and call it a day.
What can’t be challenged in Federal Court.
Harvard has a $53 Billion endowment. They can move some of the money around the same way they do with funding from Qatar and Red China, and become non-governmentally funded like Hillsdale College.
What? And give up chasing Jooos! out of Harvard?! Never!
Kleptomania wouldn’t you say? It’s a disease like homosexuality.
Suing for to steal taxpayer money. Go head, build more resentment dims
It’s for important research! Such as the sex lives of sewer rats and whether Reggae music makes condors randy.
Where does it say that they are entitled to funding?
This is going to be interesting. One for the ages. It will pit Harvard Law School against the best the Attorney General can throw against it.
I didn’t vote to give Harvard a penny.
So, who did they hire to spellcheck the lawsuit before it was filed?
I live in Cambridge
Trump should just end the foreign student visa program and Harvard will become a ghost town
Donors put restrictions on their donations all the time.
“Harvard contends that the freeze is part of a broader campaign to coerce compliance with political demands, including federal oversight of academic content, personnel decisions, and ideological vetting of international students.”
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In truth is to bring them in compliance to be apolitical.
Shocked I am 😳😎
Don’t want to dip into the billions they have stashed away, see how long it takes to go through that with 1000$ an hour herd of lawyer😂
They have such contempt for the millions of Americans who’s tax dollars they feel so entitled.
Harvard acts like only they do research and the world will end without their research.
MD Anderson can do better research.
With the money they didn't skim from the grants as overhead.
If Harvard wants no government control then they should not accept government funding. Hillsdale college gave it up, so why can’t Harvard?
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