Harvard University is suing the Trump administration over the president’s recent proclamation that bars the Ivy League school from enrolling new international students, extending the legal battle between the federal government and the nation’s oldest university.

Harvard, in an amended lawsuit on Thursday, is asking the judge to pause Trump’s Wednesday proclamation that prevents the school from having its new students, on either F, M, or J visas, come into the U.S., calling it unlawful.

“Both the President’s proclamation and the DHS Secretary’s revocation violate the First Amendment,” Harvard’s legal team said in the Thursday filing. “Each is part of a concerted and escalating campaign of retaliation by the government in clear retribution for Harvard’s exercising its First Amendment right

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