Trump’s Harvard student ban keeps bouncing off the courts
Trump’s attempt to shut Harvard out of international-student enrollment kept looking like a power grab in search of a legal theory. On June 21, the administration was still stuck with a court loss from the day before, leaving the White House to defend a crackdown that judges had already treated as too shaky to stand on its own. The episode mattered because it showed Trump trying to use immigration and national-security rhetoric to punish a university, and then getting checked by the judiciary in real time.
Trump’s attempt to shut Harvard out of international-student enrollment kept looking like a power grab in search of a legal theory. On June 21, the administration was still stuck with a court loss from the day before, leaving the White House to defend a crackdown that judges had already treated as too shaky to stand on its own. The episode mattered because it showed Trump trying to use immigration and national-secur…
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