Harvard University filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over the $2.3 billion funding freeze.
“Defendants’ actions threaten Harvard’s academic independence and place at risk critical lifesaving and pathbreaking research that occurs on its campus,” according to the lawsuit. “And they are part of a broader effort by the Government to punish Harvard for protecting its constitutional rights.”
In March, the government alerted Harvard it would review $9 billion in funding.
Harvard said it would not comply to a list of demands, which include dismantling DEI and limit the antisemitic protests.
That’s when Trump froze $2.3 billion.
This is a school that has an endowment worth over $50 billion. Why does it need my taxpayer money?
Without our taxpayer money, Harvard claims that cancer, infectious diseases, and neurological research will be affected.
From The Wall Street Journal:
“The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting,” Harvard President Alan Garber said in a community message announcing the lawsuit. Research at risk by the funding cuts, Garber said, includes work into child cancer, infectious disease outbreaks, and easing the pain of soldiers wounded in battle.Harvard argues in the lawsuit that the government has cut off funds “as part of its pressure campaign” to force the university “to submit to the government’s control over its academic programs.”The lawsuit sets up a legal showdown between America’s most prominent university and the president of the United States, who has been on an escalating campaign to reorder elite higher education.
“The freeze and the looming threat of additional funding cuts will chill Harvard’s exercise of its First Amendment rights,” claims Harvard. “Harvard will be unable to make decisions regarding its faculty hiring, academic programs, student admissions, and other core academic matters without fear that those decisions will run afoul of government censors’ views on acceptable levels of ideological or viewpoint diversity on campus.”
Um, the government is telling you to protect Jewish students. It’s telling you to stop the antisemitism.
Harvard needs to change.
SCOTUS already told the school to end the race-based affirmative action in admissions.
We know the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paused $1 billion in grants.
Senior officials told The Daily Caller the move came because Harvard has been “intransigent with respect to obligations to protect students on this campus from the effects of insidious antisemitism.”
“Harvard needs to fully come into compliance with Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” one official told The Daily Caller. “They need to remedy the violations of Title IV with respect to Jewish students on campus, they need to make sure that the not violating title six with respect to their admissions practices, and they need to provide sufficient guarantees that this conduct is not going to repeat itself.”
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