Harvard tapped attorneys with GOP ties to sue Trump in funding freeze showdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "No government -- regardless of which party is in power -- should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue," Harvard President Alan M. Garber, who is Jewish, wrote in a letter on April 14. Harrison Fields, the White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary, responded in a statement to BI on Monday that "the gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars" is ending, because "taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.
44% : He was nominated by Trump in 2017 to serve as Maryland's US attorney and was once a clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
44% : The Trump administration has been targeting not just universities with the freezing or cancellation of funding grants or government contracts, but also aiming at Big Law firms with executive action.
37% : The lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts features a long list of lawyers from four different firms, brought against an equally lengthy list of executive agency officials and Trump appointees, including Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

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