Research Powerhouse Harvard Secures Win Over Trump’s $2B Funding Freeze U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston ruled the government violated the university's free speech rights when it withheld grants, noting the administration “used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul” of the law. A separate judge has blocked foreign aid cuts. Bloomberg: Harvard $2 Billion Funding Freeze Found Illegal By Judge Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally...