Lehotsky said that the case is “about the federal government’s control over the inner-workings of America’s oldest institution of higher education.” Harvard has also argued that the Trump administration skirted a legal process to cancel funding under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964, which prohibits discrimination “on the basis of race, color, or national origin.” Lehotsky at one point quoted “Sentence first — verdict afterwards,“ a line from the Queen of Hearts in the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” to illustrate how he believes the government took action before legally justifying its decisions. The Trump administration did assert that Harvard violated Title VI in a notice it released last month, which Lehotsky argued proves that the government knew that process was available to try and cancel funds, but chose not to follow it. Velchik, meanwhile, said that the government was not using the Title VI process in this case and argued that the administration had the authority under federal regulations regarding grants. Because of that, Velchik argued that the case should be tried in federal claims court as opposed to federal district court, which Burroughs sharply questioned.

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