Trump administration illegally froze billions in Harvard funds, judge rules

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Students walk up the steps of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library on the campus of Harvard University. (Elissa Nadworny | NPR)A federal judge in Boston handed Harvard University a legal victory on Wednesday. It’s the latest in a high-profile legal fight over whether the Trump administration acted illegally when it froze more than $2.2 billion in Harvard research funding in response to allegations of campus antisemitism. What we know about Columbia’s $221 million settlement with the Trump administration The complex settlement allowed both sides to claim victory. Harvard’s attorneys had argued that the cuts imposed by the Trump Administration threatened vital research in medicine, science and technology.