Harvard demands the Trump administration for the threats of reducing financing if the demands are not satisfied

Harvard University is demanding the administration of President Donald Trump for threatening to retain federal funds if the school did not comply with its demand list.

The lawsuit, filed at the Federal Court of Massachusetts, asks a judge to prevent the freezing of financing between enforcement, arguing that the measure is “illegal and beyond the authority of the government.”

In it, university lawyers argue that the administration is illegally using billions of dollars in federal funds such as “leverage to obtain control of academic decision making in Harvard.”

They also claim that the freezing of funds violates the first amendment, the federal law floats and threatens the medical research that save life.

“In total, the compensation placed in Harvard and other universities is clear: it allows the government to microgestione its academic institution or endanger the ability of the institution to pursue medical advances, scientific discoveries and innovative solutions,” Harvard lawyers wrote.

Earlier this month, after the refusal of the school to transfer the demands of the government, the Joint Working Group of the Administration to combat anti -Semitism, claiming that the school has not faced the anti -Semitism on the campus, froze $ 2.2 billion in subsidies and $ 60 million in contracts, and, according to the reports, it plans to remove an additional billion of $ 1 in funds for medical research.

The decision followed Garber’s Letter on April 14He said the school “will not deliver its independence or give up its constitutional rights” by accepting a series of terms proposed by the Trump administration.

Demand is the last effort of the school to reject administration’s threats.

“The Government has not identified, and cannot, no rational connection between anti -Semitism concerns and medical, scientific, technological and other research that has frozen that aims to save American life, promote American success, preserve US security and maintain the position of the United States as a global innovation leader,” the demand said. “The Government has not recognized the significant consequences that the indefinite freezing of billions of dollars in federal research funds will have in Harvard’s research programs, the beneficiaries of that research and the national interest in promoting American innovation and progress.”

In addition to arguing that the freezing of funds violates the first amendment, Harvard lawyers alleged that the Trump administration did not comply with the Civil Rights Law of 1964, which establishes a series of necessary procedures before the financing can be freezed.

“The Government made no effort to follow these procedures, without the procedures provided for in the regulations of the agency of the accused, before freezing federal Harvard funds,” said the lawsuit.

The school asked a federal judge to declare illegal freezing, block the validity and order the government to freeze the furniture funds without following the steps established by the Civil Rights Law of 1964.

The president of Harvard University, Alan Garber, announced the lawsuit in a letter published on the School’s website on Monday, saying that the administration’s demands sought to impose “unprecedented and inappropriate control” on the university.

“Folding the radical and intrusive demands of the letter, which would impose inappropriate and inappropriate control over the university, the government, in addition to the initial freezing of $ 2.2 billion in funds, considered taking measures to freeze $ 1 billion in subsidies, initiated numerous investigations of Harvard operations, threatened the education of international students and announced that it is to consider a revocation of Harvard (three (Trif. Tax state, “said Garber’s statement.

“These actions have brands of real life for patients, students, teachers, staff, researchers and the position of American higher education in the world,” he continued.

The Trump administration has also reduced funds in Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern, the University being more high profile and first university to explicitly reject the government’s demands.

“Today, we defend the values ​​that have turned American higher education into a lighthouse for the world. We defend the truth that schools and universities throughout the country can adopt and honor their legal obligations and better fulfill their essential role in society without incorrect government intrusion,” Garber said in his statement announcing the demand on Monday.

The White House did not immediately respond to the request for comments from ABC News.

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