Donald Trump faced yet another loss in court on Friday, this one related to his continued attempts to find ways to punish Harvard for defying his attempts to get them to bow to his will. He is FURIOUS. This time he tried to block them from accepting any international students. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the ban within hours of Harvard filing the lawsuit, stating in the court order that this move by the Trump administration was “clear retaliation” for its refusal of the government’s ideologically rooted policy demands.
The judge that issued this ruling, Burroughs is the same judge who is overseeing a second lawsuit by Harvard against the Trump administration related to their freezing of $2.65 billion in federal funding.
CNN reports that the decision to bar international students violates the law, staying in their filing: “It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students.”
