Judge Orders Trump Administration To Unfreeze Nearly $2.2 Billion In Federal Grants To Harvard

A national judge successful Boston connected Wednesday ordered nan Trump management to unfreeze astir $2.2 cardinal successful national grants to Harvard.

U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs granted successful portion Harvard’s mobility pinch respect to nan frost orders.

“All freezes and terminations of backing to Harvard made pursuant to nan Freeze Orders and Termination Letters connected aliases aft April 14, 2025 are vacated and group aside,” nan bid said.

The 84-page bid conceded that Harvard has been "plagued by antisemitism" successful caller years, and should "have done a amended occupation of dealing pinch nan issue," but noted "there is, successful reality, small relationship betwixt nan investigation affected by nan assistance terminations and antisemitism."

"In fact, a reappraisal of nan administrative grounds makes it difficult to reason thing different than that Defendants utilized antisemitism arsenic a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated battle connected this country’s premier universities, and did truthful successful a measurement that runs afoul of nan APA, nan First Amendment and Title VI," Burroughs wrote.

The ruling comes aft Harvard revenge a suit against nan Trump management aft it announced successful April it was freezing much than $2 cardinal successful grants to nan schoolhouse because Harvard refused to comply pinch nan administration's demands that included auditing viewpoints of nan student body.