The AP reports that U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (who has a history of favoring the elite universities) has ordered the Trump Administration to restore $2.6 billion of funding to Harvard University that was pulled because of Harvard's failure to protect its Jewish students from discrimination by leftist protestors. Burroughs' reasoning was that the funds were not connected to Harvard's antisemitism and that the government "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities." In other words, it didn't matter if Harvard violated federal law that says schools can get their funding pulled for discrimination because the funding cuts also served a political purpose.
The article also reports:
Harvard President Alan Garber pledged to fight antisemitism. But, he said, no government “should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
So they want taxpayer dollars--they just don't want the taxpayers to have any say about how that money is spent.
Of course she does.
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