Harvard sues the Trump administration in escalating confrontation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : According to the Institute of International Education, Harvard had about 7,800 international students enrolled last academic year.
57% : Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!
56% : The president and fellows of Harvard College filed the sweeping complaint against the departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Energy, and Defense, the General Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, NASA and the leaders of those agencies.
51% : Lawsuit argues that government actions, including freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding, violated the First Amendment and didn't follow legal procedures.
50% : And in a message to their community, Stanford University President Jonathan Levin and Provost Jenny Martinez said the Supreme Court had long ago recognized the freedoms of universities under the First Amendment as the ability to determine who gets to teach, what is taught, how subjects are taught and who is admitted to study. Universities need to address legitimate criticisms with humility, they wrote -- but the way to bring about constructive change is not by destroying the nation's capacity for scientific research or through the government taking control of a private institution.
48% : "Congress has repeatedly enacted laws that make it a crime for the president or any political appointees to help the White House to directly or indirectly interfere in IRS audits or investigations of taxpayers, and the president has done just this by tweeting that he wants them to do so." Even without political influence, she said it would be extremely rare for the IRS to revoke an organization's tax-exempt status and would only happen after years of investigation and back-and-forth.
41% : A White House spokesperson said last week that investigations into an array of institutions began before Trump posted on Truth Social and that any forthcoming actions would be conducted independently of the president. Jason Newton, a spokesperson for Harvard, said there is no legal basis to rescind the school's tax-exempt status.
31% : The next day, Trump posted on social media, "Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting 'Sickness?'
24% : " The Ivy League university is accusing the Trump administration of violating its First Amendment rights, federal administrative procedures and regulations for taking action against institutions.

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