Judge blocks Trump’s $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze

On Wednesday, a federal judge suspended the Trump administration’s attempt to examine $ 2.2 billion in Harvard’s research financing.

In a matter of 84 pages, the American boycott judge, Alison Buruz, concluded that the Trump administration “used anti -Semitism as a smoke” to illegally prevent billions of dollars in financing research.

Judge Buroz wrote in its matter: “We must fight against anti -Semitism, but we need the same level to protect our rights, including our right to freedom of expression, and does not need any goal and does not need to sacrifice it on the altar of the other.”

“Now it is the task of the courts to escalate the same, and to act in protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression as required by the constitution, and to ensure that important research is not properly exposed to its arbitrary work and procedural grants, even if it risks anger at the government committed to soldiers, it does not matter the cost,” she wrote.

In April, Trump froze $ 2.2 billion from Harvard’s grants and $ 60 million in decades after the school refused to budge in the government’s demands after the joint work team in the administration to combat anti -Semitism that the school failed to face anti -Semitism on the campus.

Judge Buroz wrote that the administration’s actions “have been subjected to decades of research and the welfare of all those who can benefit from this research, as well as reflecting an ignorance of the rights protected by the constitution and federal laws.”

But the decision is Birhi’s victory for Harvard University, where the judge also concluded that Harvard University “suffers from anti -Semitism in recent years, and it is possible to do a better job in dealing with the case.”

She wrote: “The defendants and the president are right to combat anti -Semitism and use all legal means to do so.

While the Trump administration was martyred as anti -Semitism as a basis for the cancellation of money, Judge Burouz said the actual reason is the “president’s authority” and the president’s political opinions. She noted that the Trump administration’s demands for admission, judgment and employees had no relationship to anti -Semitism, which reduced the government’s allegations.

“[T]Below, in fact, a little relationship between the research affected by ending grants and anti -Semitism, “the judge wrote.

The university president, Alan Garper, said that the judge’s ruling “confirms the first amendment and procedural rights of Harvard University” in a letter to the Harvard community.

“We will continue to assess the consequences of opinion, monitor more legal developments, and to realize the changing scene that we seek to fulfill our mission,” said Giber.