Harvard’s temporary court victory over Trump unlikely to last, experts say

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A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday granted an emergency request at Harvard University to prevent, at the present time, the Trump administration’s efforts to ban international students from its university campus, and its deprivation with Harvard University in the ruling most likely that the university will suffer from “immediate damage and cannot be repaired” if imposed.
The temporary restriction order from the American boycott judge, Alison d. Buroz Administration from Harvard’s abstraction immediately from the case of issuing certificates within the framework of the student and stock visitors program, or SEVP – a program run by the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) that allows universities to sponsor international students for American visas.
In its arrangement, Boroz said that Harvard showed evidence that she “will suffer from an immediate injury that cannot be repaired before there is an opportunity to hear all parties,” which led her to prevent SEVP to nullify temporarily.
However, some believe that it is just a group aid, as it prevents a greater battle for the court between Harvard University and the Trump administration-and others say that Trump’s critics can be unfairly likely against the oldest university in the country.
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Hanging banners outside the Harry Ilins Widner Souvenir Library on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 27. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)
“Ultimately, it is related to Trump’s attempt to impose his view of the world on anyone else,” Harvard’s law professor Noah Feldman said in a radio interview discussing the Trump administration’s actions.
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the administration has frozen more than two billion dollars from grants and contracts granted to the university. It also targets the university with investigations led by six separate federal agencies.
Combated, these procedures have created a wide degree of uncertainty at Harvard University.
The temporary restriction that was submitted Thursday evening is also temporarily. Although the decision prohibits Trump from nullifying the SEVP case in Harvard, it is a reform in the short term, designed to allow the advantages of the issue to be fully heard.
Meanwhile, the administration will definitely resume the case for the higher courts, which may be more inclined to the administration.
This is just a procedural angle.
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Harvard University President Alan Garper admits a tall tour of the applause during the Harvard University starting ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
If Harvard University loses its position for a SEVP certificate – a certificate that I have kept about 70 years ago – thousands of international students currently registered at Harvard University will have a very narrow window either to move to another American university, or risk the loss of student visas within 180 days.
Some may choose not to take this opportunity, and move to a different school that is unlikely to be targeted by the administration – even if it means sacrifice, with certainty, a certain level of position.
Aram Jafour, assistant dean at the Law Faculty at George Washington University and a former lawyer in the Ministry of Justice, said in an interview that these procedures create a “chilling effect” for international students in Harvard, Aram Jafour, a associate dean at the Law Faculty at George Washington University and a former lawyer in the Ministry of Justice, in an interview.
Students “who would attend or advance to Harvard University [could be] “Less inclined to do this, or developed alternative plans to teach them in the United States,” said Javor.
“There is a point that can be said that it may have won as a policy function.”

People are walking through Harvard Yard Gate on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 29, 2023. (Getty Images)
At the same time, any financial repercussions may see the school as a result is another matter completely.
Although Trump’s uncertainty against Harvard can prove that it harms the priority of the school of preserving the various international students, or by providing financial assistance to students through a Federally managed PELL, these are unlikely to prove these financially destructive measures in the short term.
Harvard can simply choose to fill the openings that international students have taken with any number of applicants who take a delusion from the United States, David Feldman, Professor in William and Mary, who focuses on economic issues and higher education, in an interview.
Harvard University is one of a handful of American universities that has a “needs” policy for local and international students-that is, it does not take into account the financial need for the student or the required aid in the weight of the possible applicant. But because international students in the United States usually need more help than local students, replacing their holes with local students, most likely, will most likely have a noticeable effect on the revenues they receive for study fees, fees and housing.
“This is all about Harvard, and choosing the best collection of students possible,” Feldman said in an interview. If the administration succeeds in canceling their SEVP certificate, then this will actually “restrict them to choose the second group better.”
“Harvard University can empty the entry category of 1500 people entirely [applicants]”Feldman said. And from all the standard tools that I and I will see, you will look good as well.”
Unlike public schools, which are subject to state budget fluctuations, private universities such as Harvard are often margins in their budgets in the form of seed funds that allow them to allocate more money towards the things he set as goals for the year or coming years.
This allows them to work with more stability as a result – and develops them more than the financial visits of the administration.
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“The uncertainty is bad for them,” Feldman admitted. But at the end of the day, he said: “These institutions have the ability to resist.”
“They do not prefer – they prefer this entirety,” said Feldman. But, from his point of view, it is that Harvard is “not isolated”.
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2025-06-07 11:00:00