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Trump is trying a desperate new strategy to retaliate against Harvard

Courts that review this action don’t even have to get to the deeper constitutional questions.

Seemingly undaunted — or just desperate — the Trump administration has now tried a new route to retaliate against America’s oldest university: deny thousands of international students the ability to attend. In fact, the effort by the Department of Homeland Security to punish Harvard in this way was so ham-handed that the purported rescission of the university’s ability to educate international students failed to follow the law and procedures required of the administration should it wish to take such action. This procedural failure means that the weightier constitutional questions of whether the administration’s actions violate the university’s free speech or due process rights will likely be left to another day.

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