Axios: Harvard sues Trump for international student ban

[Dennis Donovan]

Axios - Harvard sues Trump for international student ban

April Rubin
7 mins ago

Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Friday for what it called "clear retaliation" against the school for "exercising its First Amendment rights" after the government barred international student enrollment.

Why it matters: Harvard is becoming the litmus test of how far the Trump administration will go to try taking down colleges and universities it considers to have liberal biases.

• "The revocation continues a series of government actions to retaliate against Harvard for our refusal to surrender our academic independence and to submit to the federal government's illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty, and our student body," Harvard President Alan Garber said in a statement.

Driving the news: The university will also file a motion for a temporary restraining order to prevent the administration from taking any further action against the school, Garber wrote.

Read the full lawsuit here:

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[NJCher]

1. Yay, a new lawsuit to read

Love this. Should be good. 72 pages.

[NJCher]

2. The restraining Order

Is a nice touch, too.

[NCDem47]

3. I mean, the best minds in the world when it comes to law (Harvard that is).

[Arazi]

5. They didn't ask for a stay on the freeze of billions of research dollars

Harvard didnt choose attack dogs for their first lawsuit - they picked former Traitor’s lawyers in some weird attempt to … I have no idea. Negotiate?

Those billions are currently frozen when they needed to ask for a stay so the research $$ was dispersed.

I see they’ve now asked for an injunction on this and any further attacks. Now they’re finally getting tough. But tbh, they haven’t been … so far

[newdeal2]

4. It's a ridiculous abuse of power

Imagine a Dem president using this kind of power against Liberty University and what kind of outrage it would cause.