A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned incoming foreign students from entering the US to attend Harvard University. Hours earlier, Harvard had filed a legal challenge asking for the federal judge to block Trump’s order.

The amended lawsuit claims Trump’s proclamation, which suspends international visas for new students at Harvard, violates the First Amendment by temporarily blocking the entry of nearly all new inter...

Harvard argued the administration’s move is “part of a concerted and escalating campaign of retaliation by the government in clear retribution for Harvard’s exercising its First Amendment rights.”

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