Harvard University filed suit Monday against the Trump administration, challenging its decision to cut more than $2 billion in grants in a high-profile showdown between the government and the prestigious private institution.
Harvard President Alan Garber said in a statement announcing the suit that the university chose to challenge what it considered unreasonable demands from an administration antisemitism task force to "to control whom we hire and what we teach."
The administration's demands, he said, "would impose unprecedented and improper control over the university" and came without any real effort to engage on the issue of antisemitism. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Massachusetts.
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