Welcome to the NewsHour. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's move to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students. The judge's decision came just hours after Harvard filed a lawsuit in response.

That initial move by the administration put about 6,800 students or more than a quarter of the student body at immediate risk of losing their international status.

Harvard has been at the center of the administration's battle over higher education, which includes multiple investigations,

canceling or freezing billions of dollars in grants, and threatening the school's tax-exempt status.

For more on what this legal and political clash can mean for higher learning,

I'm joined by Laura Meckler of the Washington Post. It's all part of our rethinking college

series, which is focusing on the battles over higher education. Laura, welcome back to the

News Hour. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me again. So for the moment, as we said,

the administration is blocked from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students.

But should it go into place, how big a threat is this to Harvard, both reputationalally but also economically?

Well, it has several elements. First of all, if you're talking about theoretically such a large number, thousands of students not able to join them this

fall. You know, the question is, you know, can you just replace those students so quickly?

You know, Harvard clearly has a lot of people who want to go there, but it's not entirely clear

that you could completely replace those students if it came to that. So there's some implications when it comes to things like

tuition and that sort of thing. But really, I think there's a bigger issue about sort of how Harvard

sees itself. It sees itself as a place that's really attracting the best and the brightest,

you know, throughout the world and that the people who are there are learning from each other,

learning from people who come from different places, from different cultures, and that if those students weren't there,

that would take away something from what, how the university is and what sort of a place it is

to be and to study.

We know that international students often pay higher tuition in some places.

Is that true at Harvard?

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