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Â鶹´«Ã½IOS statement on ruling that Trump’s funding freeze for Harvard was unlawful
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Today, a federal court what Â鶹´«Ã½IOS has said all along: The Trump administration trampled Harvard University’s First Amendment rights and broke civil rights law when it yanked billions in federal grants and contracts over alleged Title VI violations.
The worthy goal of combating unlawful anti-Semitic discrimination on campus cannot justify the flatly unlawful and unconstitutional means used by the Trump administration in this attempted hostile takeover, including demanding that Harvard impose ideological litmus tests and restrictive speech codes. Our government may not use civil rights laws as a pretext to violate the First Amendment.
Read Â鶹´«Ã½IOS’s amicus brief here.
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