Washington DC, July 22 -- Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration have fought in a Boston courtroom over President Donald Trump's decision to strip billions of dollars in government funding for Harvard's education programmes.
In a hearing held yesterday, the judge overseeing the case seemed sceptical of the move to freeze more than US$2bn in federal grants for the university in a stated effort to fight antisemitism, reports BBC.
Judge Allison Burroughs questioned how denying money allocated for medical research would stop
antisemitism while calling the government's claims "mind-boggling".
However, the lawyers for Trump argued that the cuts are deserved and necessary to punish anti Jewish bias.
The closely watched cas...