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What's the status of Harvard's lawsuits against the Trump administration?

On Thursday, both sides are Advertisement US District Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued an emergency order last Friday temporarily blocking the government from removing Harvard from the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which allows universities to enroll student visa holders. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The order was issued the same day Harvard filed its suit against the government and a day after Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that Harvard's certification to enroll student visa holders was revoked 'effective immediately.' She said it means that international students already attending the school would have to transfer or lose their legal status to remain in the country. Noem said the punishment was in response to Harvard's failure to provide information the administration had demanded on April 16 about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus. Advertisement ' This administration is Noem accused Harvard's leadership of creating 'an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment.' However, in its lawsuit, Harvard called it 'the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and the 'ideology' of its faculty and students.' The suit alleges that the administration demanded an unprecedented amount of information related to international students, then claimed Harvard's response was 'insufficient,' without explaining why or citing any regulation that Harvard had failed to comply with. Harvard alleges that the revocation of its ability to enroll international students is 'a blatant violation' of its First Amendment and Due Process rights and argues it would have an immediate and devastating impact on the university and more than 7,000 visa holders. The visa programs, which allow international students to enter the United States and attend Harvard and thousands of other schools, 'have boosted America's academic, scientific, and economic success and its global standing,' the suit says. The loss of visa holders at Harvard would impact countless academic programs, research laboratories, clinics, and courses supported by international students, the suit says. 'Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,' the suit says. In issuing the temporary restraining order last week, Burroughs ruled that Harvard had shown it could suffer 'immediate and irreparable injury' if it lost its ability to enroll international students. Advertisement What about the other case? Burroughs is also presiding over a case involving a separate lawsuit Harvard filed last month alleging the Trump administration The Trump administration said it was freezing Harvard's grants — much of them for medical and scientific research — because the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by f Harvard alleges the action came without notice or explanation. It also argues the administration's goal is to exert improper influence over the school as part of a sweeping crackdown on elite universities to squelch ideological dissent, a violation of schools' First Amendment rights. In its suit, Harvard said it has been taking steps Those demands included cutting diversity programs and submitting to an audit assessing the 'viewpoint diversity' of its faculty, student body, staff, and leadership. Shelley Murphy can be reached at