Author: Daniel Hall

Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president and his Cabinet to force viewpoint diversity on campus violated the Constitution’s guarantees of free speech. “Defendants’ actions are unlawful,” Harvard’s lawsuit states. “The First Amendment does not permit the Government to ‘interfere with private actors’ speech to advance its own vision of ideological balance.’” Yet in his first term, President Donald J. Trump declared that free speech mattered. Trump issued the “Executive Order Restoring Free Speech and Ending Federal Censorship” on March…