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Earlier this week, in an attempt to recover $2.5 billion in federal funding, Harvard University took the Trump administration to court.

This started just a few weeks ago when the president called on all institutions of higher learning to crack down on anti-Semitism on their campuses.

Harvard was specifically warned by name that if they did not make changes, they'd lose their federal funding.

In a letter to Harvard's wider community, the school's president painted this threat as a challenge to academic freedom. Quote,

no government, regardless of which party is in power, should dictate what private universities

can teach, whom they can admit and hire, in which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,

end quote. Former President Obama then inserted himself into the conversation posting this comment on X.

Quote, Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions, rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom,

while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate, and mutual respect.

Let's hope other institutions follow suit, end quote.

As Dr. Andrew Walker pointed out, it's certainly odd that someone who attempted to force

nuns to pay for contraception would position himself as a vanguard of the First Amendment.

But this is the same former president who also said

that he could always get things done because, and I quote, I have a pen and I have a phone.

Well, now, both of those things are in the hands of a different administration. The IRS is even

considering revoking Harvard's tax-exempt status, and it's not just Harvard that's on the receiving

end here. According to

Ballotpedia, President Trump has issued some 171 similar executive orders, 45 memoranda, and

proclamations on policies ranging from trade, health care, immigration, energy, and criminal

justice. In response to one of President Trump's post about Harvard, constitutional lawyer and

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