The Trump administration signaled on Dec. 19 that it would continue working to defund one of the world’s top universities over concerns about alleged anti-Semitism and ideological bias.
In a notice of appeal, the Justice Department said it was challenging a district court’s decision to block that freeze, which impacted more than $2 billion in funding for the school.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs entered a final judgment against the administration in October following a lengthy opinion a month earlier, accusing the administration of trying to impose an ideological orthodoxy on the university.
“The government-initiated onslaught against Harvard was much more about promoting a governmental orthodoxy in violation of the First Amendment than about anything else, including fighting antisemitism,” Burroughs wrote….