The Trump administration abruptly ended Harvard’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday — jeopardizing the legal status of more than one in four students on campus. Less than a day later,

May 23: Harvard sues to stop the Trump administration from carrying out its revocation of the school’s certification to enroll foreign students, and within four hours, Burroughs – coincidentally also assigned as the judge in this separate lawsuit – issues a temporary restraining order against the government in the case.

Harvard University President Alan Garber decried the Trump administration's actions against the school in a Monday letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

Harvard University is suing the Trump administration for barring it from enrolling foreign students, calling the move unconstitutional. The university argues that the decision could erase a significant portion of its student body and is a political retaliation against Harvard's defiance of White House demands.

He defended the university’s practices and said it would comply with the law. “But Harvard will not surrender its core, legally-protected principles out of fear of unfounded retaliation by the ...

The crux of the dispute between the administration and the university is not whether Harvard violated antidiscrimination law. Recently released internal reports acknowledge Harvard’s campus ...