Harvard Takes the Trump Administration to Court

Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over its funding freeze of billions of taxpayer dollars. Altogether, the university looks to lose $3.2 billion in federal funding. Ironically, Harvard University President Alan Garber is using grant funding to pay for the lawsuit.

A White House official released a statement to explain why the funds are being stripped:

The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families is coming to an end. . . . Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.

The “basic conditions” refer back to an April 11 letter sent to Harvard outlining expected protocols and hiring practices for universities. One section was devoted to “Reforming Programs with Egregious Records of Antisemitism or Other Bias.” And Harvard refused to address the open antisemitism on campus.

Harvard is basically saying: We don’t care that we’ve ignored your requirements. You’re contracted to give us the money. We deserve it. In its lawsuit, the university claims that the funding freeze violates its First Amendment rights because it “impos[es] viewpoint-based conditions on Harvard’s funding.” It won’t be able to teach its beliefs freely.

With all this in mind, remember that $9 billion in federal funding already goes to Harvard University, which is hard to fathom when Harvard charges roughly $80,000 in tuition and fees per student and has the largest endowment in the world ($53.2 billion as of 2024). To put that in perspective, Harvard’s endowment is larger than the GDP of almost 100 nations.

So that means taxpayers are sending billions to Harvard – and other liberal universities – to espouse far-Left propaganda. And most Americans aren’t in favor of the radical indoctrination being forced on students. Something had to change, and the Trump Administration took action.

In ACLJ-related news, we are sending a letter to the governor of Washington state regarding a shocking proposed bill. As our letter explains, “By decriminalizing the concealment of the remains of a child who was born alive and then died, it legalizes infanticide.” ACLJ Senior Counsel CeCe Heil updated us:

There was a bill in Washington that passed the legislature and is actually now sitting on the governor’s desk. And it’s a bill that concerns protecting the life of unborn or born babies, and so we sent a letter to the governor to say, Please do not sign this bill. You need to veto this bill because it does not protect the lives of babies, and it does not protect the lives of pregnant mothers. It’s basically a bill that has repealed a law that made it a gross misdemeanor to conceal the birth of a child by disposing of the dead body. So no longer is it a crime to conceal the birth of a child by disposing of the dead body. . . .

Any death that results from a known or suspected abortion or any death that’s due to premature birth or stillbirth, whether it’s suspicious or not, the coroner no longer has jurisdiction over those bodies. So again, this opens the door for a baby’s death. Again, whether that’s preborn or born – for a baby’s death to be completely concealed, and there’s no way to investigate it. There’s no way to prosecute it if that death occurred by illegal means.

If the governor signs this bill into law, it will open Pandora’s Box to criminal acts against babies not being prosecuted in Washington. It must be stopped.

The bill in Washington state is similar to other states that have passed laws that could allow babies to be killed up to 28 days after birth. By using the word “perinatal” (which is the period that includes up to a month after a baby is born) instead of “prenatal” (before birth), the law legalizes infanticide.

The ACLJ has filed at state supreme courts nationwide to defend life. And if need be, we will do so again.

We are in the final days of our Life & Liberty Drive. Donate to have gifts doubled to fund our fight to stop infanticide.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included a full analysis of Harvard University suing the Trump Administration over the funding freeze.

Watch the full broadcast below: