
Trump administration appeals ruling restoring $2.7B in federal funding to Harvard
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Harvard and Trump officials have sparred for months over the Trump administration's attempts to freeze billions in federal research funds.
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"A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities," Burroughs said in a blistering, 84-page order. She described the actions as tantamount to "an ideologically-motivated assault."
"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," she added.













