“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 was back in court Monday for a major hearing in its funding fight case against the Trump administration, a key step in a battle over restoring more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the White House this spring.

President Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to criticize the judge presiding over a long-anticipated hearing over his administration’s battle with Harvard University. Harvard is suing the administration over the pause it put on nearly $3 billion of federal research funding,