Harvard University has initiated legal action to contest a federal government's freeze on over $2.2 billion in research grants. This freeze came after the Trump administration demanded changes in university policies related to activism and diversity. Harvard President Alan Garber affirmed that the institution will not comply with these demands, arguing that the freeze has no rational link to the concerns raised. The lawsuit labels the funding halt as arbitrary and harmful to national interest, violating Harvard's rights under the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.
"The Government has not and cannot identify any rational connection between antisemitism concerns and the medical, scientific, technological, and other research it has frozen that aims to save American lives..."
"Harvard's suit called the funding freeze 'arbitrary and capricious,' saying it violated its First Amendment rights and the statutory provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act."
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