US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Dr. Ben Carson (L), his nominee for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Alveda King (2nd R), niece of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his daughter, Ivanka Trump (R), following a tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, February 21, 2017. / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Credit: credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
A federal judge in Boston has shut down the Trump administration's civil rights lawsuit against Harvard University, ruling that the antisemitism cited by government lawyers wasn't recent or widespread enough to prove the school is currently breaking federal law. Handed down Thursday, the dismissal is the clearest legal defeat the administration has suffered yet in its year-long standoff with the Ivy League school.
Why the judge said the case ran out of time
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