Harvard University sued the US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday, marking a major escalation amid an ongoing clash.
Trump has accused top universities of allowing anti-Semitism on campus and has threatened to cut their funding, remove their tax-exempt status, and limit foreign student admissions.
Trump has also freezed on more than USD 2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus.
“This case involves the Government’s efforts to use the withholding of federal funding as leverage to gain control of academic decision making at Harvard,” the Ivy League university said in a lawsuit filed in a Massachusetts federal court that named several other institutions targeted by Trump.
“The Government’s actions flout not just the First Amendment, but also federal laws and regulations,” said the complaint which called Trump’s actions “arbitrary and capricious.”
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