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Jed Rubenfeld: Trump’s Lawless Attack on Harvard
Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common in a protest calling on Harvard to resist interference at the university by the federal government (Nicholas Pfosi)
There is powerful evidence that the White House is punishing the school for fighting back. That’s called retaliation—and it plainly violates the First Amendment.
By Jed Rubenfeld
05.24.25 — U.S. Politics
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The Trump administration fired another bunker-busting bomb at Harvard on Thursday, prohibiting the school from enrolling international students. The move set off a panic among the more than 6,500 students already at Harvard who do not hold American citizenship.

This is only the latest move in the president’s war on the oldest and wealthiest university in…

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Jed Rubenfeld
Jed Rubenfeld is a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School, a free speech lawyer, and host of the Straight Down the Middle podcast. He is the author of five books, including the million-copy bestselling novel The Interpretation of Murder, and his work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives with his wife, Amy Chua, in New York City, and is the proud father of two exceptional daughters, Sophia and Lulu.
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