Post B1PfCofadHMMzIHe7s by franciswashere@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B1Pe9cPBfwYO7vWTOC by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-12-19T17:02:49Z
       
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       The #Trump admin is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in #funding cuts to #HarvardUniversity, extending a standoff over the White House's demands for “reforms” at the #school.The #DOJ filed a notice of appeal late Thursday in a pair of consolidated lawsuits brought by #Harvard & the American Association of #University Professors.#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #HigherEducation #RevengePolitics https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-administration-appeal-judges-order-reversing-federal-funding-128555783
       
 (DIR) Post #B1PebWTbJQ1HqatQS8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-12-19T17:07:52Z
       
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       The case has tested the govt's #power to sway the nation's oldest & wealthiest university, which has resisted a pressure campaign targeting #colleges around the country.Judge Allison Burroughs ruled in Sept that the #Trump admin's sweeping #funding cuts violated #Harvard's #FirstAmendment rights. The judge said the govt put #unconstitutional conditions on Harvard's federal funding & failed to follow federal procedures for the govt to sanction universities for “#CivilRights” violations.#law
       
 (DIR) Post #B1Pezi4Hrl2qkSaOFU by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-12-19T17:12:15Z
       
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       The #Trump admin cut >$2.6 billion from #Harvard over allegations that it had been slow to deal with antisemitism on campus. Burroughs rejected that notion, saying the govt was using antisemitism “as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.”The notice of appeal is a first step in the govt's effort to have the ruling overturned. It does not provide #legal arguments behind the appeal.#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #Revenge
       
 (DIR) Post #B1PfCofadHMMzIHe7s by franciswashere@mastodon.social
       2025-12-19T17:14:32Z
       
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       #usa
       
 (DIR) Post #B1PfHvWgZHaphTYVl2 by franciswashere@mastodon.social
       2025-12-19T17:15:02Z
       
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       #usa
       
 (DIR) Post #B1Phga6TYQCwPHBE2q by PG19582@mastodon.social
       2025-12-19T17:41:58Z
       
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       @Nonilex and here I thought America was all about certain "inalienable rights" and  "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Guess we were all wrong.