Justice Dept. Sues Harvard Over Antisemitism

0:00Canada's story is making news on March 20th. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Harvard University on Friday, accusing its leaders of ignoring anti-Semitism on campus. Officials say this violated federal civil rights laws and won a court to freeze current grants, recover billions in past taxpayer dollars, and force. Changes like calling police on disruptive protesters. This move ramps up a long-running clash between the Trump administration and Harvard. It follows an investigation into complaints from Jewish and Israeli students, plus more than $2,600,000,000 in research. Funding cuts that a federal judge later reversed, calling the anti-Semitism claims a cover. Harvard insists it's already tackling the issue with new task forces, hires, and tougher discipline rules. Education leaders, though, blast the administration for a bullying campaign, saying it's pressuring elite schools to bend to his views after talks, broke down. The probe kicked off soon after Trump took office, zeroing in on how Harvard handled

1:01pro-Palestinian protests tied to the Israel-Hamas war. A federal task force ruled last June that the school will fully allow harassment, threatening legal action, unless it complied. While many universities have settled similar disputes with payments like $200 million from Colombia, or $50 million from Brown 2, restore funds, Harvard's standoff has led to this rare courtroom fight, testing the limits of government power over higher education.