The administration of US President Donald Trump on Monday stated that he was investigating whether Harvard University and Harvard Law Review violated the regulations on civil rights when the magazine editors quickly follows the article written by a member of the racial minority.
The news about the new poll took place a few hours after the federal judge agreed to accelerate the lawsuit of the Harvard University, trying to block Trump's administration before freezing over $ 2 billion as part of funds for a federal grant, which was warned by Ivy League school, threatens important medical and scientific research.
. Probe announcement Through the American Department of Education, Health and Social Welfare, they said that the editors of Harvard Law Review could get involved in the “discrimination based on the race” in violation of the title of VI of the Act on Civic Rights of 1964.
“It seems that the process of choosing Harvard Law Review chooses the winners and losers on the basis of the breed, using a loot system in which the scholar's legal race is just as important as the merit of the application,” said Craig Trainor, assistant to the assistant of the Education Department for Civil Rights.
A representative of the Harvard University said in a statement that the school “undertakes to assure that the programs and actions he supervise are in line with all applicable regulations and to examine all credibly alleged violations.”
No immediate comment from the Law Review
Representatives of Harvard Law Review, a legally independent organization run by students, did not immediately respond to emails in search of comments.
Earlier, the US District Judge Allison Burroughs during a short trial in Boston established the trial on July 21 in the case after Harvard warned that the freezing and additional threatened cuts expose the tests.
The Monday interrogation was the first she had taken since Harvard sued last week after he refused to convey what, according to the President of the University of Massachusts Cambridge in Massachusetts, there were illegal demands of the task group for anti -Semitism of administration “for control, who we hire and what we teach”.
These requirements included calls for a private university to restructure its management, changes in employment and recruitment practices to ensure an ideological balance of viewing points and the end of some academic programs.
Harvard said that although he is involved in combating anti -Semitism, broadly extensive demands of administration violates the guarantees of freedom of speech of the first amendment of the US constitution.
Instead of looking for an initial order blocking freezing in anticipation of the result of the dispute, Harvard decided to go straight to the merits of the case that both IT and the US Department of Justice turned to the judge for a quick deal.
Tensions between universities, Trump administration
Harvard and other universities recorded federal funds threatened by administration over how they coped with pro-Palestinian protests against Israel's war in Gaza, which collected campuses last year.
The schools were also in the target of administration on other issues, such as programs of diversity, justice and integration (Dei) and transgender policies.
Since the office of office, Trump has Dei programs have broken up This is to increase marginalized groups that have stood in the face of historical inequality. He gave these steps to help minorities discriminating against groups such as white people and people.
Trump administration At the end of March it was announced About $ 9 billion for subsidies and contracts with Harvard on what he says that the school does not protect Jewish students from anti -Semitic discrimination, including during protests on the campus, began reviewing.
Since then, Trump's administration froze over $ 2 billion on Harvard and threatened to dismantle the status exempt from tax and collect his ability to save foreign students. He also demanded information on foreign university ties, financing, students and lecturers.