A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must restore nearly $2 billion in frozen federal funding meant for Harvard University, saying it’s the duty of the judiciary to “safeguard academic freedom.”

US District Judge Allison Burroughs did not buy the Trump administration’s argument that its ongoing attacks on universities were motivated by a need to fight antisemitism on college campuses. In her ruling, she said that President Donald Trump and his appointees were using the idea as a “smokescreen” to hide a “targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.”

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