Harvard Shows Trump... How American Viewpoint / Teaching / Research Actually Works, And How... The Government May Not Suppress Peaceful (Even If Controversial) Thoughts / Expressions.

Well. That any 21^st Century US preznit would need to be told -- in a court of law -- that he cannot suppress peaceful free speech or thought. . . is rather astonishing. But this is the (second) time. . . of the Manchurian Cantaloupe. So it goes.

You likely already saw the headlines, in papers around the East Coast -- but here's the excellently-reasoned 84 page opinion -- and the sharpest end of this spear, below:

. . .[Harvard challenges] the decision to freeze and ultimately terminate nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard.

More specifically, Plaintiffs collectively challenge the decision to freeze and then terminate the grants on three primary grounds, contending that (1) the funding decisions were made in response to Harvard’s refusal to capitulate to Defendants’ content- and viewpoint- based demands and its subsequent decision to file a lawsuit, in violation of the First Amendment; (2) the grant terminations did not comply with the procedural requirements of Title VI and are thus invalid; and (3) Defendants acted arbitrarily and capriciously when they froze and subsequently terminated funding to Harvard, as they failed to provide a reasoned explanation for how or why freezing and terminating funding would further the goal of ending antisemitism, to weigh the importance of the grants they sought to terminate, and to consider decades of reliance engendered through their prior practice of funding research at Harvard. . . .

For the reasons stated herein, Harvard’s motion for summary judgment, [Harvard, ECF No. 69], is GRANTED IN PART. . . .

Hilarious -- put that in your pipe and smoke it, you faux would-be / autocrats!

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