Trump 0, Culture 1. The District Judge Allison D. Burroughs in a clear and irrefutable way Trump’s decision to cancel iere 2.2 billion dollars of funding and the American campus in the name of an anti -Semitism (non -existent).
TRUMP – explains the judge – used anti -Semitism as a “comparison” for a targeted and ideological attack against American universities, Harvard in the lead.
A sentence that leaves no room for doubts: Trump violated the Constitution and “No president has the power to block the funds for research, culture, education at the highest level“.
What had happened
Trump had justified the blocking of funding with alleged episodes of anti -Semitism on university campuses. But, according to the sentence, it was only a “political comparison”, used to hit the universities considered hostile to its ideological vision.
Judge Burroughs, in a decision of 84 pages, clarified that the provision had no legal bases and that a president cannot arbitrarily cancel public funds intended for research, culture and education.
Because the sentence is important
Harvard’s victory – and his rector Alan Garber – It is not just cheap. It is a verdict that reiterates a fundamental principle: no president can put academic and scientific freedom at risk for political or ideological reasons.
This decision thus becomes a historical precedent, to protect not only American universities but also of the value of research and culture as common goods that cannot be bent on logic of power.
In a nutshell: he won knowledge, he lost populism.
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