Harvard: a Judge Press Administration Trump to justify its cups of 2.6 billion dollars in subsidies at prestigious university

The game between Donald Trump and Harvard moved on Monday, July 21 in the judicial arena, where a judge asked the US government to justify the prince of more than $ 2.6 billion in research subsidies at prestigious university.

Since his return to the White House, in January, Donald Trump accuses the dean of American universities of serving as a breeding ground for the “awake” ideology and of not being sufficiently protected from his Jewish or Israeli students during demonstrations on campus for a cease-fire in the Gaza strip. In retribution, the Trump government has withdrawn from Harvard a little more than $ 2.6 billion to federal subsidies, including in the health area, and has withdrawn certification for the student and exchange program, the main system with which foreign students are authorized to study in the United States.

The university, one of the most prestigious in the world and based in Massachusetts, challenged these two measures for the local federal court in Boston, in an impasse that also serves as a test for others in the Trump government, such as Columbia, in New York.

“Control liver”

Harvard University, for its part, claims measures to ensure that Jewish or Israeli students and employees feel excluded or intimidated on campus while they claim that the federal government measures measures “Threatened” Freedoms of expression and academic and were therefore contrary to the American Constitution.

In his complaint before judge Allison Burroughs, Harvard de Trump administration accuses the use of the prince of federal funds as a “Lever” in an attempt to “Account” University decision -take.

Lawyers in the two camps presented their arguments on Monday before judge Burroughs who, according to the American decision, to freeze these subsidies on Harvard, according to American Media. Without waiting for the decision, the US President castigered the judge.

The Harvard affair has just been presented before a judge “Mentioned by [Barack] Obama »Donald Trump complained about his social social network. “It’s a total disaster, and I say it before I even heard his decision”he wrote, accusing from the University of“Be anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-American”.

At the same time, associations of the American professors of the American University, in particular Harvard, asked another court of Massachusetts on Monday to acknowledge that the United States government “Exchange policy based on ideology” In contrast to the first amendment of the Constitution, which protects freedom of expression.

For these associations, the arrests of foreign students with a view to their expulsion, such as those of the Propaletine activist of Columbia Mahmoud University Khalil or the Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk, the aim of the voices against the Israeli war in Gaza and the defense of the Palestinians and the public debate.

The government of the United States used an order at the beginning of the month to try to obtain “Documents” Trainees of Harvard University on international students who are suspected of having participated in Propalestinian demonstrations on campus. Interrogated by the France Presse Agency (AFP), the management of Harvard described as“Unjustified” The request of the Trump government and a campaign expelled from “Represailles” against a university that “Defend” Both his students and the fundamental principles.