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Harvard AAUP and National AAUP Sue Trump Administration to Block Unlawful Funding Cuts

American Association of University Professors Press Release

Excerpt: The national AAUP and our Harvard chapter filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block the Trump administration from demanding that Harvard University restrict speech and restructure its core operations or else face the cancellation of $8.7 billion in federal funding for the university and its affiliated hospitals.

“The First Amendment does not permit government officials to use the power of their office to silence critics and suppress speech they don’t like,” says Andrew Manuel Crespo, Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law at Harvard University and general counsel of the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter. “Harvard faculty have the constitutional right to speak, teach, and conduct research without fearing that the government will retaliate against their viewpoints by canceling grants.”

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