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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 04:59 PM Wednesday

BREAKING: A federal judge issues an injunction BLOCKING the Trump admin from freezing Harvard's funding

Adam Klasfeld
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BREAKING:

A federal judge issues an injunction BLOCKING the Trump admin from freezing Harvard's funding, calling the antisemitism excuse "a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

Doc https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.283718/gov.uscourts.mad.283718.238.0.pdf


Ouch SCOTUS

Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) 2025-09-03T20:26:28.161Z

BREAKING:

A federal judge issues an injunction BLOCKING the Trump admin from freezing Harvard's funding, calling the antisemitism excuse "a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) 2025-09-03T20:35:45.027Z
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BREAKING: A federal judge issues an injunction BLOCKING the Trump admin from freezing Harvard's funding (Original Post) In It to Win It Wednesday OP
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Judge blocks Trump's $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #2

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2. Judge blocks Trump's $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 05:12 PM
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The judge said the Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen."

Judge blocks Trump's .2 billion Harvard funding freeze
abcnews.go.com/US/judge-blo...

Ex-GOP Hilary ❌👑 (@hplem.bsky.social) 2025-09-03T21:00:01.940Z

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-blocks-trumps-22-billion-harvard-funding-freeze/story

A federal judge on Wednesday stopped the Trump administration's attempt to axe $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard University.

In an 84-page order, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs concluded that the Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen" to unlawfully block billions in research funding.

"We must fight against antisemitism, but we equally need to protect our rights, including our right to free speech, and neither goal should nor needs to be sacrificed on the altar of the other," Judge Burroughs wrote in her order.

"Now it is the job of the courts to similarly step up, to act to safeguard academic freedom and freedom of speech as required by the Constitution, and to ensure that important research is not improperly subjected to arbitrary and procedurally infirm grant terminations, even if doing so risks the wrath of a government committed to its agenda no matter the cost," she wrote.
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