I cannot see how a demand that Harvard end its racial discrimination violates the college’s First Amendment rights, so let’s try to figure this out.
On Friday, officials from the General Services Administration, the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Service sent a letter to Garber and Penny Pritzker (Obama’s billionaire commerce secretary and sister of the governor of Illinois) in her capacity as Lead Member of Harvard Corporation.
The Trump administration’s letter said, “Harvard has in recent years failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment. But we appreciate your expression of commitment to repairing those failures and welcome your collaboration in restoring the University to its promise. We therefore present the below provisions as the basis for an agreement in principle that will maintain Harvard’s financial relationship with the federal government.”
