The platform said: “Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again”
2024 Republican Platform, Promise 18What was done: Froze more than $2 billion in Harvard research funding. A federal judge ruled that it was illegal retaliation for protected speech.
The administration said the freeze was about antisemitism on campus. Judge Allison Burroughs struck it down in full on September 3, 2025. She found that it violated the First Amendment and skipped the notice and hearing steps required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. She wrote that the actions were “much more about promoting a governmental orthodoxy” than about fighting antisemitism.
Sources
- CNN — Judge says administration unlawfully blocked Harvard funds
- Harvard Crimson — Ruling on the funding freeze
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