Jonathan Turley Says Trump Admin ‘Going To Prevail’ In Legal ‘War Of Attrition’ Against Harvard

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley predicted that Harvard University would eventually lose its legal battles with the Trump administration Thursday on “Fox and Friends.”

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced May 6 that Harvard would not receive future grants, saying the Ivy League university displayed a “systemic pattern of violating federal law,” citing its failure to address the antisemitic harassment and its efforts to continue using race as a factor for admissions. Turley said the sheer number of actions taken by the university would eventually allow the Trump administration to “prevail.” (RELATED: Alan Dershowitz Tells Harris Faulkner If Trump Student Visa Pause Is Legal)

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“The thing to remember about higher education is foreign student something of a meal ticket for universities,” Turley told “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade. “Most of them pay the full rate, full tuition, so universities have been eager to get them because they represent a significant financial component for them. When you are also squeezing grants, even a university of size of Harvard begins to feel that on the bottom line.”

The Department of Homeland Security terminated Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification May 22, citing the Ivy League school’s failure to address antisemitism and its failure to provide accurate data on funds from foreign sources.

“I think that the administration is going to prevail on much of this, if not all of it,” Turley added. “I have been critical of some of the moves of the administration towards Harvard. But, the administration does have discretion in these areas on grants. They have discretion on granting these visas, but more importantly this is a war of attrition and in that war, Harvard could win a lot of these court cases and still lose. They are not in a good position to go toe-to-toe with the administration over the next three years when they’re being drained of these resources.”

Since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel, pro-Hamas protesters have occupied buildings, chanted a slogan that has connotations of wiping out Israel and blocked Jewish students from parts of campus at multiple universities, including Harvard.

The Trump administration is also moving to end all contracts with Harvard as of Tuesday. A letter from the General Services Administration pointed to ongoing issues with antisemitism and race-based policies on campus as grounds for terminating grants and federal contracts.

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