Overview

• Today in Boston, Harvard asked U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs for a summary judgment reversing the Trump administration’s freeze and cancellation of roughly $2.5 billion in federal research grants.
• The university’s complaint asserts that the administration’s April demand letter and subsequent funding cuts infringe on the First Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
• The Trump administration argues it lawfully withheld grants from institutions it deemed insufficient in combating campus antisemitism and ensuring viewpoint diversity, and it challenged the court’s jurisdiction.
• Harvard warned that hundreds of ongoing research projects — from cancer treatments to emerging biological threat studies — are at risk without restored funding.
• A faculty lawsuit by the American Association of University Professors has been consolidated with Harvard’s case as both parties await a ruling that could shape federal oversight of higher education.