Harvard gets immediate TRO on international students

[Arazi]

Already! Really glad to see judges are figuring out that stall and delay is part of this administration’s strategy. It’s always been Traitor’s strategy which Pam Bondi adopted. Im heartened to see judges pushing back so rapidly.

Hours after Harvard University sued the Trump administration for revoking its ability to enroll international students, a federal judge temporarily barred the Department of Homeland Security from allowing the change to take effect.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, a Barack Obama appointee, granted the Ivy League school's request for a temporary restraining order on May 23.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/harvard-lawsuit-international-students/83813633007/

[SheltieLover]

1. Good!

[Septua]

3. Yeah, it's one step closer...

..to his eventual decision to respect the rule of law or not.

[Initech]

12. You know he won't.

This entire wretched POS administration is all about getting revenge for their precious toy being taken away from them in 2020, and they're determined to erase and make us forget about the last 4 years when he wasn't in charge.

[SheltieLover]

20. He never will

[unblock]

2. I fully expect ice to ignore this and kidnap and exile legal international students.

[Septua]

5. If you listen to Homan talking his distorted legal logic...

..your expectation is spot on.

[MineralMan]

4. I expected to see exactly that.

Harvard, with its legal expertise, dropped a suit on Trump the day after the restrictions were announced. And the argument was good enough to get an immediate TRO from the court.

Clearly, the administration is overstepping its authority here.

[Bread and Circuses]

6. Harvard literally has an entire law school to sue the turd in ten minutes

[onenote]

10. Harvard isn't being represented by students. It has a team of experienced legal high achievers.

Five law firms and 14 individual lawyers are listed on the filings made on behalf of Harvard. The individual lawyers include former Supreme Court clerks for Justices Stevens, Kennedy, Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas and Kavanaugh. These are lawyers with stellar credentials who have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations. A number of them are graduates of Harvard Law, but they also include graduates of Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Duke, U of Texas, Northwestern and Emory Law. The fact that several of the Harvard Law graduates went on to clerk for republican appointed judges and justices undermines the notion that Harvard is a hotbed of radical leftists.

The current Supreme Court has four Harvard law graduates, four Yale law graduates and one Notre Dame law graduate.

[fujiyamasan]

22. As the old saying goes

Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached.

It has an endowment of over $50 billion, so it has a big enough war chest to spend on the best legal teams. But the feds can make life hell in other ways like using the IRS to go after it. Maybe they have already and I missed the news.

[Tickle]

7. unless they pass the big, beautiful bill in the senate

One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), recently passed by the House, still contains a provision that significantly limits federal judges' ability to enforce contempt citations against executive branch officials. Specifically, the bill prohibits courts from using appropriated funds to enforce contempt citations for noncompliance with injunctions or temporary restraining orders if no security bond was posted when the order was issued .

[CaptainTruth]

8. I wonder if courts will rule against that?

IOW was it done in a way that's legally valid, or is it just more Trump/GOP BS?

[Tickle]

9. That would be interesting, but I think

if it's a law that is different. IDK

[CaptainTruth]

11. I'm wondering if it's unconstitutional in some way, limiting the powers...

...of the Judicial Branch?

[Tickle]

24. It should be 🤷 NT

[Warpy]

13. Good. Harvard, MIT, and other top schools attract top students from all over the planet

Filling research labs with even the smartest white prep school grads would not be the same, they would lack the perspective that only a wildly different culture can provide.

I'm really happy to see Harvard fighting back, but I knew they would. They know how much of their academic strength comes from diversity. Too bad so many white people in power are too stupid to figure that out.

[LisaM]

19. It's just such a fucking waste of everyone's time.

Which this whole administration seems to delight in doing.

Not one of them is affirming their oath to serve the American people.

[fujiyamasan]

23. As always the lawyers win

[LisaM]

31. It's a good thing there ARE lawyers in this case.

Not all lawyers are bad. Right now they are the only line of defense against Trump.

[Cha]

27. Putin approves the mesage and that's

who they're all working for. Attack from Within.

[Arazi]

21. My hope is that all of the universities band together including Columbia

This needs a united front.

Columbia is finding out that capitulating to these terrorists only invites more attacks.

There’s lessons in how both universities have handled the administration’s assault on higher education.

[Warpy]

25. Columbia must have a prize MAGAt for a Chancellor

if it's making that stupid and short sighted a decision.

Top researchers and the grand dollars they attract will simply move to universities that refuse to knuckle under to fascists.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants Harvard's request for a temporary restraining order

BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants Harvard's request for a temporary restraining order, barring the Trump administration from revoking the university’s student exchange certification.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T16:04:19.488Z

[Cha]

28. I like this is from BlueSky..

TY, LMPV

[iluvtennis]

15. Awesome news! n/t

[vanessa_ca]

16. The state needs to sue as well because Harvard is an integral part of its economy

Let this go to the Supreme Court. Four sitting SCOTUS were educated at Harvard. Harvard ties trump political ties/alliances.

[flashman13]

17. Of course there are just a few outriders, but it seems the federal courts as a whole are fed up with Trump's bull shit.

[sheshe2]

18. I worked in Harvard Square, Cambridge Ma for years. Right down the street from Harvard.

Welcome to Harvard Square

Each year, over 8 million men, women and children visit Harvard Square. Visitors come for a variety of reasons; this is a place of history, of books, of ideas, and of learning. It is a place of bookstores and coffee houses, of fine dining and eclectic shopping. It is a place of folk music and old theaters, of Cuban ballet and world-class music, of street-performers and award-winning pizza, of public discourse, and public art. Whatever brings you here, we welcome you and hope you enjoy your stay.

https://www.harvardsquare.com/about-harvard-square/

[Cha]

30. That must have been so

Super Cool, she! 😎💙🌈

I imagine this is even more personal for you and everyone around Cambridge.. and of course, Harvard students and Grads.

[sheshe2]

32. It was one of the best places I ever worked.

I loved the Square and the diversity it offered.

The Harvard Coop, founded by Harvard students in 1882, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest and one of the largest collegiate bookstores in the United States.

Thanks, Cha. You would have loved it there.

[Cha]

33. Aww, I know that's True!

Ohh Thanks for the History, she! I'm all Verklempt about Harvard.

[Norrrm]

26. Does Trump carry a grudge?

[Cha]

29. And, Harvard Rejects Mump's Anti-DEI

Shit!