“Still, on Friday, the administration dialed up the pressure once more, with a new investigation involving patents that the university derided as “yet another retaliatory effort targeting Harvard for defending its rights and freedom.””

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“Broad threats to defund Harvard underpin the university’s lawsuit, which argues that the government was trying to use those dollars “to gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard” in violation of the First Amendment.”

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“The university has accused the government of retaliating against it for its refusal to bend to the White House’s efforts to control the university’s “governance, curriculum and the ideology of faculty and students.””

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“The university will continue to defend itself against these retaliatory actions which have been initiated simply because Harvard refused to surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights in response to unlawful government overreach.””

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“The university sued the Trump administration last month over the government’s attempt to impose changes to its curriculum, admissions policies and hiring practices.”

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