The Ivy League school has filed a lawsuit to stop a federal freezing of the United States in more than $ 2.2 billion in subsidies.
Harvard University has sued the administration of US President Donald Trump to stop the government’s pause of more than $ 2 billion in funds for the United States educational institution.
“Around the course of last week, the Federal Government has taken several measures after Harvard’s refusal to meet its illegal demands,” Harvard president Alan Garber, in a statement.
“Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to stop the freezing of financing because it is illegal and beyond the government authority,” said Garber.
Among the government agencies of the United States mentioned in Harvard’s demand were the Department of Education, the Department of Health, the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy and the General Services Administration.
The Trump administration had no immediate comments.
But Trump and his White House team have publicly justified their campaign against universities as a reaction to what they say is an uncontrolled “anti -Semitism and the need for reeds diversity programs aimed at addressing the historical oppression of minorities.
The Administration states that the protests against the Israel War in Gaza that extended through the United States university campuses last year were plagued by anti -Semitism.
“The Government has not identified, and cannot, no rational connection between anti -Semitism groups and medical, scientific, technological and other research groups that has frozen that aims to save American life, US global American amereo leader in innovation,” reads Harvard’s legal complaint.
Many American universities, including Harvard, took energetic measures against protests at the accusations at that time, with the Cambridge headquarters placing 23 students on probation and denying titles to another 12, according to protests organizers.
Other institutions, including Columbia University in New York City, have promoted the demands of the Trump administration, which the educational elite is too left.
Tyler Coward, the main lawyer of government affairs with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a non -partisan group of the first amendment, praised Harvard for “taking a position of principles against federal overreach that threats of greater.”
“The Trump administration attempt to avoid federal rights law and impose hunger idological mandates through financial coercion establishes a dangerous precedent,” Coward said.
“Universities must comply with civil rights laws to receive federal funds. The application of these laws must be legal, transparent and respect constitutional rights.”