Federal judge rules Trump terminated grants to Harvard University is unlawful
發佈日期: 2025-09-04 10:48
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A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully terminated about 2.2 billion US dollars in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longer cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston marked a major legal victory for Harvard as it seeks to cut a deal that could bring an end to the White House's multi-front conflict with the nation's oldest and richest university.
The administration cancelled hundreds of grants awarded to Harvard researchers on the grounds the school failed to do enough to address harassment of Jewish students on its campus.
Harvard sued, arguing the Trump administration was retaliating against it in violation of its free-speech rights after it refused to meet officials' demands that it overhaul its governance, hiring and academic programs to align with their ideological agenda.
Burroughs agreed, saying while Harvard had tolerated hateful behavior for too long, the Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities."
White House spokesperson Liz Huston in a statement vowed to appeal the ruling by an "activist Obama-appointed judge," saying Harvard "does not have a constitutional right to taxpayer dollars and remains ineligible for grants in the future."
