Trump Gets Mocked in Public by Harvard Crowd
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We had a tremendous split-screen moment today against Donald Trump just nine miles apart in Massachusetts. On one hand, we had federal judge Burroughs, who, after hearing argument,

is going to issue a preliminary injunction, one level up from temporary restraining order in favor of Harvard University to stop Donald Trump and the Trump administration from taking away its right to participate in the international and foreign student exchange program, to cut

a quarter of all students out of Harvard, the heart out of Harvard by Donald Trump. No, says Judge Burroughs. I'm keeping my temporary restraining order in place while you guys work on a preliminary injunction draft I can live with and I'm gonna enter a preliminary injunction nine miles away at the commencement in Cambridge for Harvard. Yes, it's commencement time, folks. Look at the calendar.

We have President Garber, a strong opponent, a tough, tough adversary for Donald Trump, taking the podium to 32,000 people at Harvard and their community to thunderous applause, especially when the murmur went around the crowd that they had obtained, Harvard had obtained.

the preliminary injunction they were looking for to keep Harvard, Harvard. Michael Popak, let's keep Midas Dutch and Legal AF, Midas Dutch and Legal AF together in this new reporting. There's a lot of stories floating around about Harvard. I want to kind of tie it all together right now. There is the lawsuit

about whether Donald Trump can cut $3.3 billion worth of funding away from Harvard, take it away from Harvard and give it to who knows who, trade schools, to penalize Harvard students.

I'm not sure it's because the rumor about Barron Trump being denied admission, but more so because this is an organization that is not bending the knee and is not kissing the ring for Donald Trump. And he doesn't like it. He's doing it under the fault. He's attacking Harvard under the false flag of anti-Semitism on campus and First Amendment expression of graduate students.

And so he wants to hit it where they live. He wants to cut off their foreign student and the money related to foreign students. He wants to take away their biomedical research grants, which only help you and me, and go after the oldest and one of the most prestigious universities in America. And Harvard fought back and is fighting back. It has two major law firms. One, the prior law firm of Donald Trump just about a month or so ago, Quinn Emanuel. The other is

represented by Robert Herr, Donald Trump's own U.S. attorney from Maryland, who was the special counsel against Joe Biden. They've joined forces together. So you got two separate set of cases that are, that where Harvard is winning. One, to block efforts to cut off their funding.

The case I'm talking about now is with Judge Burroughs, and that's about the attempt for the Trump administration to kind of kick Harvard in their, you know, brass ones and take away foreign dollars, foreign exchange program rights. One quarter of Harvard's campus is international. Half of the School of Diplomacy, a quarter of the school business is foreign, and that's okay.

But that's the equity, diversity, diversity, equity, and inclusion Donald Trump can't get behind because he can't control it. And so you had this moment where in court today, word got out, because the order is not yet on the docket, but word got out that Harvard had won today.

You know, forget sporting events. They won where it matters in the court of law with Judge Burroughs. And that hit at the same time as the graduation commencement when Garber took the stage. And here's a clip. Members of the class of 2025 from down the street, across the country, and around the world, around the world, just as it should be.

See, I couldn't lead with the clip because it would just look like another commencement day where somebody was telling you to use more sunscreen. But this was important because it shows that this is bringing and galvanizing the Harvard community together. See, they're not afraid of a few graduate students with bed sheets and spray paint stating an opinion at Harvard Square. I'm not scared of that. I might find some of what they say distasteful.

But it needs to be in the public square of expression. And Harvard shouldn't be attacked for it. This show is sponsored by Liquid IV. I was born by the beach, and I haven't recovered since. Born in December, but a summer baby all the way. And my daughter, she was born on a 95-degree sweltering day last June.

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blocked funding being denied, blocked the Trump administration trying to take away its foreign students and right to participate with international students. And think about what that would do to put Harvard at a tremendous competitive disadvantage with the other Ivy League schools and other elite schools.

because they're taking in foreign dollars. Donald Trump just announced some random number. Like, you know, he loves telling businesses and institutions how to run themselves. Walmart, you should eat all my tariffs that I imposed for China. Yeah, we're not doing that. Harvard, you don't need 27% of your population to be foreign students. You should lower it to 15% so that more Americans can get in there. Americans aren't being denied access to Harvard because there's not room there.

If they're being denied access, it's because they're not qualified to attend Harvard. But, you know, again, Donald Trump presses a losing streak, doubles down on a losing hand. Moments or just hours before he went into court, his lawyers went into court today for this losing proposition. They decided to start an administrative process giving Harvard 30 days to

to give the reason why and defend themselves as to why they shouldn't lose their participation in this foreign and international exchange program to allow for foreign students. Forget all that administrative process. The judge wants a preliminary injunction drafted for her review that maintains the status quo, the world before Donald Trump attacked Harvard.

And she's waiting for the parties, and this sometimes happens in cases, she wants the parties to take the first crack, the first draft of history and submit it to her. If she doesn't like it, she'll change it. When you submit something to a judge like that, she usually wants it or they want it in word so they can change it and redline it. I've written many of these for courts.

Many of them have been sort of just adopted wholesale. Others have been rewritten by the judge. It depends on how good you are at writing in the voice of the judge for what the judge is looking for. She gave those directions today. The other side, the side for Harvard said, we don't want any shenanigans, judge, in the order where they come up with all sorts of crazy language. The judge says, work on it together, bring it back to me, and I'll take a look at it. Here's what the docket reads. As of right now, this is what

the students of Harvard, the faculty of Harvard, the family of Harvard, the supporters of Harvard were responding to the thunderous applause for Garber. And when that rumor went around, that was true about them winning in court.

This was just at her docket number 50 on the docket. Hearing on the preliminary injunction was held today. Notice of intent to withdraw the certification that was sent to Harvard last night. So she already referenced the fact that there was an administrative letter sent, a notice of intent to take Harvard out of the student exchange program that was sent the night before the hearing.

She continues, the TRO, the temporary restraining order, will remain in place while parties confer and submit either a joint proposed PI order. In other words, get together and agree on a preliminary injunction. She's not worried about the Harvard lawyers not agreeing. She's worried about the Trump DOJ not agreeing.

So try that or submit your individual proposed orders for the judge to consider. In other words, competing orders are okay if you can't agree. Sometimes judges are like, we don't want competing orders. Just give me something that you both agree to, which puts everybody under a lot of pressure because you have to compromise in areas you may not want to compromise in. But here she's saying, try. If you fail, send me each your version of the order for me to review. She's keeping competition.

the temporary restraining order in place while she considers what the preliminary injunction order. But she has entered a preliminary injunction. She's just waiting for the terms. She goes on to say, "Status quo to remain in place while the notice of intent to withdraw process is ongoing." In other words, I know you've just started a process, but the status quo remains in place. My order blocks your process.

And that's her order. The next thing I'm going to report on here on my discussion on legal AF is when I get my hot little hands on the final order. It'll take them a day or two. It'll probably be a Friday submission and we can report on it over the weekend. But

I wanted that split screen moment for you. And I wanted to talk about it here on Legal AF and on the Midas Touch Network. I'm Michael Popak. Come on over to Legal AF, the YouTube channel where we go over these types of items every day, every way, one-stop shopping for all things law and politics. And of course, the Legal AF Substack. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak.

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