A federal judge largely sided with Harvard University over the Trump administration’s cuts to nearly $3 billion in federal funding in the name of campus antisemitism, according to an opinion released on Wednesday.

Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled that the administration could not enforce demands and funding freezes from more than a dozen letters — including an April 14 letter that froze $2.2 billion in research funding.

She determined that they were arbitrary and capricious and violated the First Amendment and Title VI.

As such, any other termination, funding freeze or stop work order or refusal to award future grants, contracts or federal funding to Harvard is illegal.

Burroughs wrote in her decision that it was the job of the courts to “act to safeguard academic freedom and freedom

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