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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHarvard gets immediate TRO on international students
Already! Really glad to see judges are figuring out that stall and delay is part of this administrations strategy. Its always been Traitors strategy which Pam Bondi adopted. Im heartened to see judges pushing back so rapidly.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, a Barack Obama appointee, granted the Ivy League school's request for a temporary restraining order on May 23.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/harvard-lawsuit-international-students/83813633007/

SheltieLover
(68,389 posts)
Septua
(2,779 posts)..to his eventual decision to respect the rule of law or not.
Initech
(104,947 posts)This entire wretched POS administration is all about getting revenge for their precious toy being taken away from them in 2020, and they're determined to erase and make us forget about the last 4 years when he wasn't in charge.
SheltieLover
(68,389 posts)
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(55,154 posts)Septua
(2,779 posts)..your expectation is spot on.
MineralMan
(149,113 posts)Harvard, with its legal expertise, dropped a suit on Trump the day after the restrictions were announced. And the argument was good enough to get an immediate TRO from the court.
Clearly, the administration is overstepping its authority here.
Bread and Circuses
(775 posts)onenote
(45,252 posts)Five law firms and 14 individual lawyers are listed on the filings made on behalf of Harvard. The individual lawyers include former Supreme Court clerks for Justices Stevens, Kennedy, Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas and Kavanaugh. These are lawyers with stellar credentials who have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations. A number of them are graduates of Harvard Law, but they also include graduates of Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Duke, U of Texas, Northwestern and Emory Law. The fact that several of the Harvard Law graduates went on to clerk for republican appointed judges and justices undermines the notion that Harvard is a hotbed of radical leftists.
The current Supreme Court has four Harvard law graduates, four Yale law graduates and one Notre Dame law graduate.
fujiyamasan
(185 posts)Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached.
It has an endowment of over $50 billion, so it has a big enough war chest to spend on the best legal teams. But the feds can make life hell in other ways like using the IRS to go after it. Maybe they have already and I missed the news.
Tickle
(4,131 posts)One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), recently passed by the House, still contains a provision that significantly limits federal judges' ability to enforce contempt citations against executive branch officials. Specifically, the bill prohibits courts from using appropriated funds to enforce contempt citations for noncompliance with injunctions or temporary restraining orders if no security bond was posted when the order was issued .
CaptainTruth
(7,663 posts)IOW was it done in a way that's legally valid, or is it just more Trump/GOP BS?
Tickle
(4,131 posts)if it's a law that is different. IDK
CaptainTruth
(7,663 posts)...of the Judicial Branch?
Tickle
(4,131 posts)Warpy
(113,435 posts)Filling research labs with even the smartest white prep school grads would not be the same, they would lack the perspective that only a wildly different culture can provide.
I'm really happy to see Harvard fighting back, but I knew they would. They know how much of their academic strength comes from diversity. Too bad so many white people in power are too stupid to figure that out.
LisaM
(29,211 posts)Which this whole administration seems to delight in doing.
Not one of them is affirming their oath to serve the American people.
fujiyamasan
(185 posts)LisaM
(29,211 posts)Not all lawyers are bad. Right now they are the only line of defense against Trump.
Cha
(311,171 posts)who they're all working for. Attack from Within.
Arazi
(7,847 posts)This needs a united front.
Columbia is finding out that capitulating to these terrorists only invites more attacks.
Theres lessons in how both universities have handled the administrations assault on higher education.
Warpy
(113,435 posts)if it's making that stupid and short sighted a decision.
Top researchers and the grand dollars they attract will simply move to universities that refuse to knuckle under to fascists.
LetMyPeopleVote
(163,560 posts)BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants Harvard's request for a temporary restraining order, barring the Trump administration from revoking the universityâs student exchange certification.
— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T16:04:19.488Z
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cha
(311,171 posts)TY, LMPV
iluvtennis
(21,221 posts)vanessa_ca
(158 posts)Let this go to the Supreme Court. Four sitting SCOTUS were educated at Harvard. Harvard ties trump political ties/alliances.
flashman13
(1,205 posts)sheshe2
(92,146 posts)Each year, over 8 million men, women and children visit Harvard Square. Visitors come for a variety of reasons; this is a place of history, of books, of ideas, and of learning. It is a place of bookstores and coffee houses, of fine dining and eclectic shopping. It is a place of folk music and old theaters, of Cuban ballet and world-class music, of street-performers and award-winning pizza, of public discourse, and public art. Whatever brings you here, we welcome you and hope you enjoy your stay.
https://www.harvardsquare.com/about-harvard-square/
Cha
(311,171 posts)Super Cool, she! 😎💙🌈
I imagine this is even more personal for you and everyone around Cambridge.. and of course, Harvard students and Grads.
sheshe2
(92,146 posts)I loved the Square and the diversity it offered.
The Harvard Coop, founded by Harvard students in 1882, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest and one of the largest collegiate bookstores in the United States.
Thanks, Cha. You would have loved it there.
Cha
(311,171 posts)Ohh Thanks for the History, she! I'm all Verklempt about Harvard.
Norrrm
(1,659 posts)
Cha
(311,171 posts)Shit!