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.
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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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