“They’ve realized that they can take a bit of a step further, that they can advance their policy priorities through those levers they have through the state university system,” said Preston Cooper, a senior fellow who studies higher education policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Kseniia Petrova’s future has hung in the balance since she allegedly failed to declare frog embryos that she was bringing back from France for research.

Officials say eight children at a church near Harvard University where a French youth choir was holding a concert suffered seizure-like symptoms and were taken to hospitals.

Burroughs, 64, a Boston native, was appointed to the federal bench in 2014 by President Barack Obama. Since then, she's overseen high profile cases, including Trump's 2017 Muslim travel ban and the Harvard admissions lawsuit.

“Harvard can win in the courtroom but still lose almost everything it’s fought for,” said Allison Wu, the co-founder of the 1636 Forum, a Harvard alumni community named for the year the university was founded, who supports the university’s case.

Harvard University has appeared in federal court, challenging $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Judging by the allegations in a lawsuit filed against Harvard College by a former MBA student at Harvard Business School, the university deserves all the angst and harassment it is getting from the Trump Administration.