The larger legal battle between Harvard and the Trump administration could raise questions of retaliation versus executive authority.

The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.

The Administration’s move is the latest escalation in its attack on elite universities across the U.S., with heavy penalties levied on Harvard, including a threat to revoke the university’s tax-exempt status. Those penalties have only grown more severe as Harvard has refused to capitulate to the Administration’s demands.