Inside Politics With Dana Bash: ‘A Big Win For Harvard’: Elie Honig Reacts To Judge’s Decision

"A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. US District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled hours after the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college filed suit Friday. Harvard argued revocation of its certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program was “clear retaliation” for its refusal of the government’s ideologically rooted policy demands." 

Source:CNN legal analyst Elie Honig.

From CNN

As Kire Schneider said in speaking about how President Trump practices economics today on The New Democrat: 

"But what Kevin Williamson is doing here and what I'm arguing as well, is this is how President Trump governs when it comes to economics: "Do things my way, or I'll bring the heavy force of the national big government, down on your ass. And I won't release my giant grip (remember, Donald Trump brags about how big his hands are) until you run your business or organization exactly the way I want you to."

From The New Democrat

I have mixed feelings here. Generally when I think of Harvard and perhaps the broader Ivy League, but especially Harvard, I think of overprivileged, Anglo-Saxon, preppy snobs, and left-wing Hippies, who think they know what's best for everyone else and how everyone else should live, because they're overprivileged and perhaps overeducated and they went to Harvard. And it also makes me want to do my what I could call (at least) sport-on, impression of someone who went to Harvard, with my impression of an Anglo-Saxon, preppy Harvard alumni. 

But like every other private institution in America, or private corporation, that's exactly what they are. It's not the job of Uncle Sam (or in this case Uncle Don) to tell private institutions and corporations, how to run their own organization. Now all these organizations have to follow the same labor, environmental, tax laws, as everyone else. But that's not the same thing as Uncle Don coming in, with his niece Pam Bondi and niece Kristi Doggone Noem  telling Harvard, they're going to take away their Federal funds and international students, because they don't like the politics of their student body or the professors there. 

What we're seeing with the Trump Administration is not how Conservatives and Republicans govern and do business. This is the fascist far-right coming in and not just taking over the Republican Party, but now they're trying to take over the rest of the country, including the private sector, with the force of a national, big government. But Donald Trump was elected twice as President, so the voters are having to live with the consequences of his 80 million voters voting for him. 

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