A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully cut off about $2.2 billion in research grants to Harvard University, handing the school a major legal victory.⁣ ⁣ U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston found the administration retaliated against Harvard for resisting demands to reshape its governance and programs to fit the White House’s agenda. ⁣ ⁣ While acknowledging the university had failed to adequately address antisemitism on campus, she said officials used the issue as “a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically motivated assault” and violated Harvard’s First Amendment rights.⁣ ⁣ The ruling bars the government from freezing or terminating Harvard’s current or future grants.⁣ ⁣ A White House spokesperson called Burroughs an “activist Obama-appointed judge” and said the administration would appeal, arguing Harvard has no constitutional right to taxpayer funding.⁣ ⁣ Harvard President Alan Garber said the decision affirmed the university’s academic freedo...