Harvard University has expanded its legal action by contesting the Trump government cuts of billions of dollars in federal funding for the institution of Ivy League on Tuesday after authorities announce the.
Harvard filed an addendum to the Federal Court of Boston hours after a federal task force against anti-Semitism announced that eight government agencies were cutting additional subsidies, in addition to $ 2.2 billion in financing already canceled by President Donald Trump’s government.
The task force, which includes representatives of bodies such as the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and the US Justice, made the decision accusing the educational institution based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of not facing “widespread racial discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment that plagues its campus”.
In response, Harvard enlarged a lawsuit that had opened on April 22 after the suspension of the initial $ 2.2 billion to cover the latest rescisms of research scholarships from agencies such as US Defense and Energy Departments and the National Science Foundation.
The expanded action also now disputes a decision of the government announced in a letter from the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, last week, to freeze billions of dollars in future research concessions and other aids until the oldest and richest faculty in the country ceds to government demands.
Harvard argues that government demands violate the guarantees of freedom of expression of the first amendment of the US Constitution. She states that the expressive freezing of funds is excessively broad and was instituted without following the proper procedures.
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“The government has not identified – and cannot identify – any rational connection between concerns with anti -Semitism and medical, scientific, technological and others that have froze or ended,” the process says.
Harvard asks US district judge Allison Burroughs to declare illegal government actions and block subsidies terminations.
The Trump government decided to cancel funding after announcing in late March that it was launching a revision of about $ 9 billion in subsidies and contracts with Harvard. Trump also threatened to remove his tax exemption status from Harvard.
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In the action, Harvard said it is committed to combating anti -Semitism and has taken steps to ensure that its campus is safe and cozy for Jewish and Israeli students. She said management actions are a threat to academic freedom.
