President Donald Trump’s crusade against Harvard University is facing another hurdle after a judge ruled that the federal research funding freeze he instituted was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said on Wednesday that the cancellation of more than $2 billion in federal grants to the university amounted to “retaliation, unconstitutional conditions, and unconstitutional coercion.”

The ruling vacates the funding freeze “as violative of the First Amendment” and prevents the government from freezing further federal funding to the university using the same reasoning.

Trump began his battle with the historic university earlier this year in response to what he argued was unchecked antisemitism on campus, claiming that the school’s handling of campus protests organized

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