Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice is appealing a ruling that prevents it from freezing federal research funding to Harvard.
U.S. Judge Allison Burroughs of the District of Massachusetts on Sept. 3 cited First Amendment rights in an order blocking the administration's attempt to withhold more than $2 billion in government funding. The suit accused the president of using the funding "to gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard."
It was "difficult to conclude anything other than that defendants used anti-Semitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically motivated assault on this country's premier universities," Burroughs wrote.
Friday's filing didn't say what the department's arguments would be but said it would appeal the decision.
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