The Trump administration appealed a judge’s ruling that it illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding to punish Harvard University for refusing to comply with a host of demands from the federal government.
US lawyers filed a notice of appeal on Thursday, more than three months after US District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that the Trump administration had violated Harvard’s free-speech and due-process rights.
Harvard has been the main target of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape elite higher education, a campaign that first focused on allegations of campus antisemitism and later grew into a much broader ...
