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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Judge rules Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard

Donald Trump suffered another setback in his war with Harvard when a federal judge ruled his attempt to freeze $2.2 billion in research funding to the university violated the Constitution.

Boston U.S. District Judge Allison D Burroughs ruled that the move to block the money from reaching the elite Ivy League, the oldest in the United States, amounted to “retaliation, unconstitutional conditions, and unconstitutional coercion.”

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