..to his eventual decision to respect the rule of law or not.

This entire wretched POS administration is all about getting revenge for their precious toy being taken away from them in 2020, and they're determined to erase and make us forget about the last 4 years when he wasn't in charge.

..your expectation is spot on.

Harvard, with its legal expertise, dropped a suit on Trump the day after the restrictions were announced. And the argument was good enough to get an immediate TRO from the court.

Clearly, the administration is overstepping its authority here.

Five law firms and 14 individual lawyers are listed on the filings made on behalf of Harvard. The individual lawyers include former Supreme Court clerks for Justices Stevens, Kennedy, Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas and Kavanaugh. These are lawyers with stellar credentials who have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations. A number of them are graduates of Harvard Law, but they also include graduates of Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Duke, U of Texas, Northwestern and Emory Law. The fact that several of the Harvard Law graduates went on to clerk for republican appointed judges and justices undermines the notion that Harvard is a hotbed of radical leftists.

The current Supreme Court has four Harvard law graduates, four Yale law graduates and one Notre Dame law graduate.

Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached.

It has an endowment of over $50 billion, so it has a big enough war chest to spend on the best legal teams. But the feds can make life hell in other ways like using the IRS to go after it. Maybe they have already and I missed the news.

One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), recently passed by the House, still contains a provision that significantly limits federal judges' ability to enforce contempt citations against executive branch officials. Specifically, the bill prohibits courts from using appropriated funds to enforce contempt citations for noncompliance with injunctions or temporary restraining orders if no security bond was posted when the order was issued .

IOW was it done in a way that's legally valid, or is it just more Trump/GOP BS?

if it's a law that is different. IDK

...of the Judicial Branch?

Filling research labs with even the smartest white prep school grads would not be the same, they would lack the perspective that only a wildly different culture can provide.

I'm really happy to see Harvard fighting back, but I knew they would. They know how much of their academic strength comes from diversity. Too bad so many white people in power are too stupid to figure that out.

Which this whole administration seems to delight in doing.

Not one of them is affirming their oath to serve the American people.

Not all lawyers are bad. Right now they are the only line of defense against Trump.

who they're all working for. Attack from Within.

This needs a united front.

Columbia is finding out that capitulating to these terrorists only invites more attacks.

There’s lessons in how both universities have handled the administration’s assault on higher education.

if it's making that stupid and short sighted a decision.

Top researchers and the grand dollars they attract will simply move to universities that refuse to knuckle under to fascists.

BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants Harvard's request for a temporary restraining order, barring the Trump administration from revoking the university’s student exchange certification.

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— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T16:04:19.488Z

TY, LMPV

Let this go to the Supreme Court. Four sitting SCOTUS were educated at Harvard. Harvard ties trump political ties/alliances.

Super Cool, she! 😎💙🌈

I imagine this is even more personal for you and everyone around Cambridge.. and of course, Harvard students and Grads.

I loved the Square and the diversity it offered.

The Harvard Coop, founded by Harvard students in 1882, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest and one of the largest collegiate bookstores in the United States.

Thanks, Cha. You would have loved it there.

Ohh Thanks for the History, she! I'm all Verklempt about Harvard.

Shit!