US probes Harvard and its law review for 'race-based discrimination'

Trump moves after university lawsuit challenges $2.3bn federal funding freeze

The Business School campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15: The university is in a legal battle over what it calls the Trump administration's attempts "to control whom we hire and what we teach."

April 29, 2025 09:48 JST

BOSTON (Reuters) -- President Donald Trump's administration on Monday said it was probing whether Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review violated civil rights laws when the journal's editors fast-tracked consideration of an article written by a member of a racial minority.

News of the new probe came hours after a federal judge agreed to expedite Harvard University's lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from freezing $2.3 billion in federal grant funding that the Ivy League school has warned will threaten vital medical and scientific research.