Trump wins powerful allies in the battle of Harvard while the university is fighting for billions
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EXCLUSIVE: The legal defense of President Donald Trump in a major trial Harvard obtained a major boost from a multitude of state prosecutors who officially joined on Monday.
Attorney General of Iowa Brenna Bird Driven 15 other lawyers general in the filing of an Amicus thesis in support of Trump after The Massachusetts institution continued The administration to prevent billions of federal funds from being withdrawn from its chests on its lax response to anti -Semitism on the campus.
Bird maintains that there is a precedent for Trump’s actions, pointing to another popular republican president who, in the 1980s, challenged a college in South Carolina for the ban on interracial relations.
The Trump-Harvard affair, said Bird, “is not the first time that the federal government has offered (modified) funding because a university did not follow anti-discrimination laws”.
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The Trump administration has announced that it was frozen more than $ 2 billion in grants and contracts after Harvard University said it would not comply with federal demands for anti -Semitism. (Nicholas Pfosi / Reuters)
“This is exactly what is happening here with Harvard; they do not follow anti-discrimination laws, and they do not stop anti-Semitism on the campus or did not protect Jewish students and Israeli students, and therefore, because of this, there is a great parallel.”
Bird noted that Harvard has the largest endowment in the country with around 50 billion dollars, in addition to billions more in conditional government subsidies.
“One of these conditions for this type of funding is that they will follow the anti-discrimination level,” she said, adding that Iowa is relevant and now involved in the case because Iowans taxes finance these federal subsidies, and if Harvard is authorized to do so.
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While Harvard has shown some improvement since Rep. Elise Stefanik, Rn.y.Grilled its president and the president of the University of Pennsylvania last year, a clear message must always be sent that their conduct was unacceptable, said Bird.
“President Trump has shown that he is directing and ensures that our university campuses funded by dollars taxpayers do not engage in discrimination against Jewish students or against people of Israel. And therefore I think he took a strong step here. And I think the law is for his part.”
Like the Harvard affair, Bob Jones – an evangelical college in Greenville, in Southern Carolina – saw its exempt status of stripped tax, which also affected its results.
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The president of Harvard University, Alan Garber, is addressed to the crowd during the 373rd beginning at Harvard University. (Getty)
The change of origin of the IRS policy prohibiting discrimination came into force under former President Richard Nixon, but it was not until 1983 that the government – then led by former president Ronald Reagan – won a similar trial.
The Supreme Court held there that the public interest in preventing discrimination prevented any related invocation of religious freedom.
Following the Bob Jones affair, the president of College at the time, Bob Jones III, made national television in 2000 to declare that the university was wrong in its previous policies based on the race and officially lifted the ban on interracial meetings.
On his websiteExplained the college: “Our sincere desire is to show a spirit really similar to Christ and a biblical position in these fields. Today, the Bob Jones University registers students from the 50 states and nearly 50 countries, representing various ethnic groups and cultures.”
