In its campaign to pressure elite US colleges to make a wide range of policy changes, the administration of President Donald Trump has come down hardest on Harvard University. Framing its actions as an initiative to fight campus antisemitism and enforce civil rights protections,

The event comes only a few hours after the institution amended its lawsuit against the federal government on Thursday evening and asked for a temporary restraining order. Those actions were in response to President Donald Trump’s issuance of a proclamation this week declaring that the school’s foreign students would not be allowed into the country.