The lawsuit sets up a legal showdown between America’s most prominent university and the president of the United States, who has been on an escalating campaign to reorder elite higher education.

Harvard President Alan Garber said the Trump administration is acting unlawfully in a Monday letter that also acknowledged the university and government share a priority in squashing antisemitism. Why it matters: The Ivy League school continues to defend itself in the back-and-forth with Education Secretary Linda McMahon over federal funding and control over the institution.

Lawsuit argues that government actions, including freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding, violated the First Amendment and didn’t follow legal procedures.