The Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has blasted Donald Trump for what it describes as “brass-knuckle tactics” in his ongoing feud with Harvard.
The WSJ’s editorial board rejoiced after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully canceled more than $2 billion in Harvard’s federal grants and contracts, which Trump froze after the Ivy League school refused to comply with demands to address alleged antisemitism on campus.
The decision, a humiliating blow for Trump amid his attacks on Harvard and other universities, was praised by the board as a “huzzah for the rule of law, which is no small thing.”
“But it might prove a pyrrhic victory, since President Trump seems willing to keep using and sometimes abusing government power to punish the school if it won’t uncond