"U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs accused the administration of using allegations of anti-Semitism against Harvard asa smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities. Harvard sued the Trump administration in April after the president canceled nearly $3 billion in funding. As a condition for restoring the money, the administration imposed a list of demands on the school, which included stoppage of deplatforming, a comprehensive mask ban, organizational changes to ensure full transparency and cooperation with all federal regulators, and a review of programs that fuel antisemitic harassment, among other conditions."
"For instance, in the forty-eight hours following the April 14 Freeze Order, the President took to social media multiple times to talk about Harvard. He posted on Truth Social that Harvard is a JOKE that should no longer receive Federal Funds. His stated concerns (which would later be echoed in the May 5 Freeze Order) were untethered from antisemitism and instead based entirely on Harvard's hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and birdbrains' who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students."
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from freezing nearly $3 billion in federal grants to Harvard and found the actions motivated by First Amendment retaliation rather than legitimate anti‑Semitism enforcement. The administration had conditioned restoration of funds on demands including an end to deplatforming, a comprehensive mask ban, organizational transparency and cooperation with federal regulators, and reviews of programs said to fuel antisemitic harassment. The judge cited social media statements by the President characterizing Harvard as a "JOKE" and criticizing its faculty as "woke" and "Radical Left", concluding those statements undercut the administration's proffered objectives.
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