Harvard draws the legal blueprint for how to fight back Trump's revenge campaign

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Harvard draws the legal blueprint for how to fight back Trump’s revenge campaign
Trump and his subordinates are using every lever at their disposal to make the university pay for disobedience

By Austin Sarat
Published May 20, 2025 4:56AM (EDT)


(Salon) The legal system in this country has long prided itself on supplying justice in a measured way. Government officials are required to abide by an elaborate set of procedures before they can impose penalties on anyone. But all that seems to have fallen by the wayside in the second Trump administration. Nowhere has that been more evident than in its dealings with Harvard University.

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The administration is using it as a tool of vengeance because Harvard has had the temerity to resist the administration’s various edicts. In return, Trump and his subordinates are using every lever at their disposal to make the university pay the steep price for doing so.

That is revenge pure and simple. Revenge, law professor William Miller contends, is “crazed, uncontrolled, subjective, individual, admitting… no rule of limitation.” And it proceeds in an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat moves until one of the parties involved surrenders.

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Harvard publicly denounced the proposal. “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.” In short order, the president threatened to withdraw Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status, The Department of Homeland Security said it might revoke Harvard’s certification to participate in the Student and Exchange Visa Program, jeopardizing the enrollment of thousands of international students, and The Department of Education sends a records request to Harvard demanding information on all overseas gifts, plus information relating to “expelled foreign students.”

Harvard again poked the bear on April 21 when it filed suit against the administration. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/20/harvard-draws-the-legal-blueprint-for-how-to-fight-back-trumps-revenge-campaign/

[Lovie777]

1. They have the real Magna Carta...............

hats off.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Harvard predates the Trumps and his adminstration on this continent by a couple hundred years

Harvard must stand tall. It will lose no stature even if it loses to Trump. It will rebuild, rapidly, when he is gone. Magna Carta is under attack, as is English common law, and everything else the legal system has done in America.