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A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration's freeze of $2.2 billion in grant funds for Harvard University over concerns about antisemitism on campus and other issues was illegal, calling it "a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities."

Judge Allison Burroughs agreed with Harvard's arguments that the administration imposed the funding freeze in retaliation for the Ivy League university's refusal to capitulate to demands for reforms that violated First Amendment protections under the Constitution.

Burroughs' ruling in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts vacates freezing orders affecting Harvard and bars anyone in the Trump administration from enforc

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