From the Sacramento Bee: California Attorney General Rob Bonta is backing Harvard University in its legal fight over frozen federal research funding, arguing the Trump administration’s actions could ultimately threaten California’s public universities and the state’s research economy.
Bonta joined a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief Wednesday urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to uphold a lower court ruling that blocked the Trump administration’s freeze of more than $2 billion in federal research funding for Harvard.* The coalition argues the case will determine how much control the federal government has over universities through research funding. “We cannot allow the federal government to weaponize grant funding as leverage to force colleges and universities to cave to political demands,” Bonta said in a press release. “California stands with Harvard and in support of academic independence, free speech, and the vital research that supports our communities.”
Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article316632141.html.
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