Harvard University sues Trump administration for pulling federal funding

Battle heats up: Earlier this month, the Trump administration, which has declared war on elite universities and threatened to pull their funding, “sent Harvard a list of demands that included auditing professors for plagiarism, reporting to the federal government any international students accused of misconduct, and appointing an outside overseer to make sure that academic departments were ‘viewpoint diverse,'” per The New York Times. The administration has repeatedly voiced that elite schools’ failure to act to stamp out antisemitism on campus is part of the reason they’re being targeted.

Then, last week, Harvard said it would not comply with what it says are unlawful demands by the administration, which led to the Trump administration pulling its funding.