Legal expert backs Trump admin's crackdown on Harvard: 'Accountability must be enforced'
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The Trump administration received varied responses following its announcement to halt all future grant funding for Harvard University unless the institution met specific demands. This decision intensifies the ongoing tensions between the White House and prestigious universities.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon issued a letter to Harvard University President Alan Garber, which was also posted on social media. In this correspondence, McMahon criticized the university, alleging it to be “engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law.”

“Harvard University has turned this nation’s higher education system into a mockery,” McMahon stated. “In every aspect, Harvard has neglected its legal obligations, ethical and fiduciary responsibilities, transparency duties, and any pretense of academic rigor.”

The Trump administration has implemented a broader crackdown on several universities, including Harvard and Columbia, over allegations of antisemitism linked to campus anti-Israel protests. Some view the administration’s actions as a form of accountability, while others question whether it’s the appropriate approach.

Harvard lawsuit

Harvard is suing the Trump administration.

However, a Jewish Harvard graduate who requested anonymity, told Fox News Digital that the Trump administration was not approaching the issue in the right way.

“Rather than guarantee freedoms, the Trump administration is attempting to dictate the exact ideological leaning that they find acceptable in university life. The university is rampant with people who lack common sense as we have seen with the pro-Hamas supporters here, but we need to attack the issue in a different way,” the Harvard grad said.

Harvard interim president Alan Garber

Harvard President Alan Garber attends the university’s 363rd commencement ceremony on May 29, 2014, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that his administration was seeking to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. 

Fox News Digital reported in April that the administration asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to take away the university’s status. Additionally, last month the administration froze $2.2 billion in funding to the university, which the president labeled as “antisemitic” and “a threat to democracy.”

In April, Garber made it clear that the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands. Garber asserted that “no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

Additionally, the university filed a lawsuit against the admin over its “unlawful” freezing of funds.

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