Trump Administration Sues Harvard Over Civil Rights

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: The Wall Street Journal.

U.S. * U.S. Education News

Trump Administration Sues Harvard Over Civil Rights

The lawsuit comes after the government lost a key court battle last year in its fight with the Ivy League school

By Sadie Gurman and Douglas Belkin
Updated March 20, 2026 10:48 am ET

The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, alleging the school violated Jewish students’ civil rights in the latest escalation of the government’s yearlong campaign against the Ivy League school.

The suit alleges Harvard failed to protect its Jewish and Israeli students by ignoring hostility on campus and refusing to enforce antiharassment rules. The suit, being filed Friday in federal district court in Massachusetts, seeks to compel the school to comply with civil-rights law and recover millions of taxpayer dollars that Harvard accepted while allegedly in violation of the law.

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[Coldwater]

1. Just another in the long lists of lawsuits

filed by the DOJ and the Trump administration, which has led to individual states and entities filing lawsuits due to Agency cuts, Birthright citizenship, DEI, DOGE. Environment, Federal funding, Federal workers, Immigration, Public data, Tariffs, Transgender rights....

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trump's goal is to destroy one of the finest universities in the world.

Why? Who benefits and how?

[Mysterian]

3. I bet Harvard's lawyers are very intimidated by imbecile's crack legal team

More waste of millions of taxpayer money paying unqualified "lawyers" to pursue the idiot's bogus bullshit.

More of these bums need to be disbarred.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. I'd like to see some judge declare Trmp's DOJ a "vexatious litigant" ... no one has deserved it more. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This case should be laughed out of court

[twodogsbarking]

6. So I guess Barron couldn't get in there afterall. Standards.