The Trump administration is appealing the ruling, and the Harvard fight could end at the Supreme Court.

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When a judge ruled last week that the Trump administration illegally froze more than $2 billion in federal research funding for Harvard University, it was a decisive legal victory for the institution and higher ed more broadly.

The administration has frozen nearly $6 billion at nine institutions, but Harvard is the only one to go to court over the freeze. This ruling likely has implications for those other universities, as well as for other lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s grant cuts.

But while Harvard won this legal battle, a larger war with the

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