A federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it froze more than $2 billion in federal funding for Harvard University earlier this year amid a battle over the school’s response to antisemitism.
Harvard President Alan Garber accused the federal government of attempting to exert “unprecedented and improper control" over the Ivy League school in April, and claimed the freeze impacted programs unrelated to antisemitism.
https://tennesseestar.com/justice/judge-rules-trump-admins-harvard-funding-freeze-was-unconstitutional/jtnews/2025/09/04/