US court rules Trump administration's $2 bln funding freeze for Harvard is illegal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : " In a recent report, Harvard acknowledged incidents of both anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim bias on campus, along with an apology from Harvard President Alan Garber and a commitment to make more changes.
52% : Civil rights The administration insisted it was protecting students' civil rights, and called taxpayer funds a privilege to be earned.
51% : The ruling "validates our arguments in defense of the University's academic freedom, critical scientific research, and the core principles of American higher education," Garber said in a statement.
47% : In her ruling, US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston said the Trump administration violated Harvard's free-speech protections as well as US civil rights and administrative laws.
45% : The US cut funding to "a broad swath of critical research without any consideration as to whether there were less restrictive alternatives" to preserve work already in place, Burroughs said in her decision.
43% : Harvard has warned that the combined cost of federal actions against the school, including a recently passed tax increase on endowments, could reach $1 billion a year.
35% : Settlement talks Trump has said he wants "nothing less than $500 million" from Harvard in any potential settlement of the litigation.
33% : Harvard has been the main target of President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape elite higher education, a campaign that started by accusing schools of fostering antisemitism but has grown into a much broader attack on diversity programs and perceived political bias.
19% : Trump has also threatened Harvard's tax-exempt status.

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