National Jewish Advocacy Center Files Amicus Brief Backing Trump Admin Against Harvard’s Funding Suit

Photo Credit: thecrimson.com

Two Jewish advocacy groups filed amicus briefs this week in the Trump administration’s legal clash with Harvard, which has sued 11 federal agencies for freezing nearly $3 billion in research funding.

The National Jewish Advocacy Center filed a brief on Wednesday siding with the Trump administration and challenging Harvard’s argument that the funding cuts violated its First Amendment rights. The nonprofit’s brief argued that the federal government was simply deciding not to fund an institution it had deemed discriminatory — not infringing on Harvard’s free speech rights.

“No institution is simply entitled to billions of taxpayer dollars,” the brief read. “The federal government, for good reason, does not believe that Harvard is adequately protecting Jewish members of its community and does not want to support this obnoxious facade.”

Read the full article