Harvard sues Trump admn over federal fund freeze

Harvard University filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to block billions of dollars in proposed funding cuts. The suit, filed on Monday is part of a feud that escalated last week when the elite institution rejected a list of demands that the Trump administration said was designed to curb diversity initiatives and fight anti-semitism at the school. Harvard’s president, Alan M. Garber, said in a letter to the university community that the consequences of the government’s overreach would be severe and long-lasting. He noted that the funding freeze had already impacted critical research, including studies on pediatric cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.
US President Donald Trump and the Harvard University has been engaged in a head-on battle for more than a week, with White House freezing $2.2 billion in grants to the institution. The funding freeze reportedly came after one of the world's finest educational institutes defied the government's demands over campus protests. The White House has not yet commented on the lawsuit.
With this, a legal showdown is all set to take place between the US' most significant university and the president of the country. A new government task force has shaken up several top universities in America in the recent weeks, pausing or freezing billions of dollars in federal funding and contracts to premier institutions like Columbia, Harvard, prompting chaos in several other schools. The task force said that it was targeting those schools which have failed to sufficiently protect Jewish students during the pro-Palestinian protests on campuses last year.Garber and other critics have said that antisemitism is being used as a weapon to give Trump administration more power and control over universities.