The legal system in this country has long been proud to provide Justice in a measured way. Government officials are required to adhere to a set of detailed measures before they can impose sanctions on anyone. But it seems that all this has fallen on the side of the road in the second Trump administration. nowhere Was it more clear? From her dealings with Harvard University.
May 15, New York Times Published An article entitled “Trump Administration escalates Harvard’s runner with an investigation into the new justice department.” She stated that “the Trump administration is achieving whether Harvard’s acceptance policies are in line with the Supreme Court ruling, which ended positive measures, and opened a new front in its widespread effort to bring the institution to the heel.” The Ministry of Justice is trying to determine whether Harvard’s acceptance was used to “defraud the government” in violation of the wrong claims law. This verb It was not intended For this purpose.
The administration uses it as a tool for revenge because Harvard He had a tementity resistance Various management ceremonies. On the other hand, Trump and his subordinates They use Every crane at its disposal to make the university pay the sharp price to do so.
This is clear and simple revenge. Revenge, Professor William Miller confirms, He is “Crazy, uncontrolled, subjective, individual, recognized … no base for restriction.” And it continues to escalate a move that reaches until one of the parties concerned surrenders.
The session started with Harvard on January 29 when the president signed on Executive order Calling for a tougher enforcement of government efforts against anti -Semitism. On February 3, President Trump hiring Fox News Liu Terrell to head the Federal Government Action Squad to combat anti -Semitism. On the day he was announced his appointment, Terril, who It was called “The worst nightmare Harvard”, moved to X to heat the school. “Harvard, start working next week!”
In early March, Terrell Gold on Fox News To put his plan on “the bankruptcy of universities by blocking” every federal dollar. ” situation Outside these circumstances. “It includes Harvard’s reform of its international student program” to prevent the admission of anti -American values students “and” a report to the federal government, any foreign student who commits violations of behavior. “
The investigation of Harvard University is no less than the money that it may receive from the federal government and more than one fishing trip about the university’s acceptance and use of diversity, shares and integration.
She also wanted to ask Harvard University to pay the price of an external review during the year 2028 of the “diversity of the point of view” in the school and the employment of “a critical bloc from the new faculty members” if it is not found varied enough. This is where the university drew the line.
Harvard publicly I was denounced The proposal. “The university will not give in its independence or abandon its constitutional rights.” In a short time, the president Threaten The Ministry of Internal Security said that the situation exempt from Harvard tax cancellation Harvard certificate to participate in the student visa program and exchange them, and to record thousands of international students at risk, The Ministry of Education sends Request records To Harvard, calling information about all external gifts, as well as information related to “foreign students who are lasted”.
Harvard again mocked the bear on April 21 when A lawsuit against the administration.
One also expects in any administration seeking revenge, which has responded by increasing the bet, launching new investigations, cutting all scholarships of new federal research to Harvard University, and additional freezing 450 million dollars in federal financing He pledged to university, and Thursday “Several federal agencies sent the termination notifications simultaneously – affecting researchers throughout the university, from the Harvard University of Arts and Sciences to the Faculty of Medicine.”
The New York Times also explained, “In the four and a half weeks since Harvard University criticized the government’s demands that it is an excessive intervention and said it will not correspond, the administration has targeted at least eight investigations and other measures against the university.”
This leads us to investigate the wrong claims. Imagination begs to see the law used as an administration that seeks to use. The law of wrong allegations It dates back to 1863When Congress was, fearing that people who were supplying the union army were enriching themselves by defrauding the government, and they were. It has been modified several times since then and any person is forbidden from submitting “intentionally” “a false claim to the government or … intentionally a wrong record or statement to obtain a wrong claim paid by the government.”
As the Times newspaper reported, the wrong claims law “is usually used to pursue government contractors to deceive.” And “targeting the university under the law of wrong claims is very unusual.”
Moreover, the message of the Ministry of Justice on Harvard’s alleged claim was not even determined by what was claimed.
It seems clear that this law is used to harass Harvard and continue Trump’s revenge. The investigation of Harvard University is no less than the money that it may receive from the federal government and more than one fishing trip about the university’s acceptance and use of diversity, fairness and inclusion.
The administration claims that Harvard University has not changed admission policies after the Supreme Court ruled the non -constitutional positive procedures. Trump’s Ministry of Justice does not seem to be interested male Last fall, “The percentage of black students in the chapter of Harvard University student decreased by more than five after the US Supreme Court ruling that prevents colleges from using race as an admission factor …”.
The “primary focus” of this recent federal government attack on Harvard University is to demand “the production of a set of documents and the provision of written answers to the list of detailed questions in the next three weeks.” It is also “searching for any text messages, email messages or other Harvard officials discussing President Trump’s executive orders earlier this year aimed at eradicating diversity, shares and integration programs.”
And if not all of this reveals the real purpose of the administration, “The Ministry of Justice also gave Harvard 30 days to determine the school official to testify under admission policies – and how these policies have changed after the Supreme Court ruling in 2023.”
For a long time, legal scholars I warn The laws designed for one purposes can be used for others. But a few of them could have imagined the way the Trump administration now used the rules and regulations of our nation.
Harvard Jonathan Soyen spokesman got it correctly when The name Investigating wrong claims, “another offensive and revenge procedure … that the administration started against Harvard.” It seems as if Trump directs the announcement of the Old Testament of God, “revenge is mine, and I will pay,” with Harvard being one of the most prominent goals of the president.
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