Harvard was able to file a 72 page complaint less than 24 hours after Trump attacked foreign students. Guess they were expecting it www.nytimes.com/interactive/... - ThreadSky

leegesmer.bsky.social • 38 days ago

Harvard was able to file a 72 page complaint less than 24 hours after Trump attacked foreign students. Guess they were expecting it
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/23/us/harvard-trump-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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profmarylewis.bsky.social•38 days ago

I’m sure they at least anticipated it’s possibility.

profmarylewis.bsky.social•38 days ago

Its, not it’s. AI is stupid. And it tried to change “its” here again

anne4change.bsky.social•38 days ago

@harvard.edu rocks!

tpainetheelder.bsky.social•38 days ago

Heard they have a decent law school. Time to out it to work

thinman.bsky.social•37 days ago

As many have pointed out, it’s a bad idea to get into a legal fight with a lawyer factory.

acjaggard.bsky.social•37 days ago

There's something SO Florida Man about this. Kinda impressed...

biscuitdrives.bsky.social•38 days ago

Or perhaps they are smarties.

omkensey.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you @harvard.edu. this is how you do it.

deborah-c.bsky.social•38 days ago

Though I think there are one or two lawyers hanging around at Harvard, not to mention a few alumni...

pj47596176.bsky.social•38 days ago

Guess they have some of the smartest people, in th world. And is a major part of American power over the last 200ish years.

blupotluv.bsky.social•38 days ago

I think Harvard has produced some pretty smart lawyers. And where did Pam Bondi go to law school?

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•38 days ago

Harvard lawyers are responsible for a lot of the crap we are dealing with today.

siyandawrites.bsky.social•38 days ago

mattydean.bsky.social•38 days ago

They better be. They’re goddamn Harvard!

jmfrank.bsky.social•38 days ago

I wonder how many were lawyers who left the government or were fired by Trump

cannonball-titcomb.bsky.social•38 days ago

What Would Jeffrey Do?

pfriesen.bsky.social•38 days ago

They might have a few alumni they could call on

pfiore8.bsky.social•37 days ago

you mean unlike Congressional Dems campaigning against prj 2025 and then, when Trump won, act like deer in the headlights? falling all over themselves?

we better camp out in and around Cambridge because that's where the next tea party will be.

lynneofbayarea.bsky.social•38 days ago

best practices

bobcoxauthor.bsky.social•38 days ago

It was telegraphed a month ago.

edholden.bsky.social•38 days ago

Imagine being a student at a law school under this sort of attack. The graduates of the next few classes are going to be the finest the university has ever produced.

mousedroppings.bsky.social•38 days ago

Would be wild if they wrote it from scratch in 12 hours using AI, though.

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•37 days ago

abt the impressive ! 72 Pages ! in 24 hours:

I once asked my Daughter, the hot shot lawyer* about something like this, and she said
Dad, a lot of those pages are boiler plate, you can almost just cut and paste from another document

*a dad is allowed to boast

oldfartmaxwell.bsky.social•38 days ago

This is the sort of question I would ask an AI: “Given the history of legal motions by the Administration, what possible future actions could be anticipated?”

madisonbelmar.bsky.social•38 days ago

Capable lawyering. If it takes you until 3 am to get it ready to file, that’s what you do. Because the client genuinely needs it.

madisonbelmar.bsky.social•38 days ago

In case you’re wondering, I have done this. Just not in cases that get covered in the newspapers.

Didn’t matter. Right thing to do.

barretny.bsky.social•38 days ago

And Harvard is not short of excellent lawyers!

seabeegator46.bsky.social•37 days ago

Your gift for understatement is commendable.

reneestephen.bsky.social•38 days ago

They just found these dozens of lawyers lying on the ground around their big lawyer tree and had thought it might be fun to get them to plan and address hypothetical scenarios. Probably in consultation with the History Department who helped narrow it down some.

simonkp.bsky.social•38 days ago

Uh huh.

hereforthecats.bsky.social•37 days ago

How stupid do you have to be to pick a legal fight with HARVARD...

tslumley.bsky.social•37 days ago

Noem threatened them with this on April 16 (according to the brief) so they've had some time to prepare.

dansonofdirm.bsky.social•38 days ago

If they really wanted to draw blood they would be forming a union that bars the heritage foundation from their campuses

margobuckingham.bsky.social•38 days ago

And, Harvard would be looking at the kids of this Administration and shredding their admission requests.

lartigue.bsky.social•38 days ago

He’s predictable

handleseverywhere.bsky.social•38 days ago

Next we get to see what it means when so many Harvard graduates are placed all through the court system. I expect they’ll do well in court

decius.bsky.social•38 days ago

If you would like to read the publicly available complaint without passing NYT’s stupid paywall, click here: https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/05/Harvard-Visa-Complaint.pdf

jeaperz.bsky.social•38 days ago

I think they have an ok law school there also

dwilliamesq.bsky.social•37 days ago

It’s adequate. There are a few graduates people have heard of.

passwordismiket.bsky.social•38 days ago

Love a complaint that has an introduction that starts at paragraph 5

zneeley25.bsky.social•38 days ago

"Make sure you change the caption on the model 'extreme executive overreach' brief"

percyjones.bsky.social•37 days ago

I miss WP 5.1.

radgen.bsky.social•38 days ago

That and they have an entire law school full of very competent instructors, more than a few who are high level attorneys in private practice and very bright students who can assist in creating the filings. Picking a fight with an entity that has "Harvard Law" at their complete disposal was dumb.

seabeegator46.bsky.social•37 days ago

YA THINK?

It’s like challenging Michael Jordan to a game of one-on-one.

truelyesoteric.bsky.social•37 days ago

It's almost like they have a really good law school alumni.

smokecityfc.bsky.social•37 days ago

@cbcnews-rss.bsky.social interviewed a Canadian Harvard student tonight. He explained that the school had already met with them weeks ago to tell them that this was a possibility. They knew it could come.

leighchevaux.bsky.social•37 days ago

They're smart.

seabeegator46.bsky.social•37 days ago

IT’S HARVARD LAW.

THE BEST
NUMERO UNO
HEAD HONCHO
CAPO DI TUTTI CAPI

leighchevaux.bsky.social•37 days ago

I want to see how they handle this situation. Get the popcorn.

troyster.bsky.social•38 days ago

Or… Y’know… they’re “Wicked Smaht” over der.

selsworth4.bsky.social•38 days ago

Wow! Harvard has lawyers? 🤭

wasserl.bsky.social•38 days ago

Or they just have really good lawyers?

frenchspicedoc.bsky.social•38 days ago

📌

brianbmc5.bsky.social•38 days ago

Now that we know the Barron trump was rejected by Harvard. All this bullshit is crystal clear

mattydean.bsky.social•38 days ago

Why does Barron even care which school he goes to? He can suffocate lost pets in abandoned refrigerators wherever he goes.

brianbmc5.bsky.social•38 days ago

I didn’t sat barron cared

taladayarts.bsky.social•37 days ago

With a family like that, undoubtedly no part of this is up to him. Everyone's a pawn.

andybaum.bsky.social•37 days ago

...and a 49 page brief in support of the motion for TRO. Oh yeah, they saw it coming.

juliecantor.com•38 days ago

Many lawyers up all night

suffraga.bsky.social•38 days ago

While Europe offers 7-year “super grants” to attract top global talent, Trump & VP J.D. Vance are busy deporting brilliant minds from Harvard—because in MAGA-world, research slots belong to red hats, not brainiacs. #AmericaLast #MAGAts

hege66.bsky.social•37 days ago

Dgʻ

jdrake3b.bsky.social•37 days ago

And one of the top law schools in the nation, at least to my layman's mind.

dryad.technology•38 days ago

Hey I've got a really cool idea… what if I got in a legal battle with a law school

burntbulb.bsky.social•37 days ago

That shouldn't be a problem as long as-- wait, it's not the one all the judges come from, is it?

siyandawrites.bsky.social•38 days ago

*THE law school

seabeegator46.bsky.social•37 days ago

IKR?

Like playing one on one with Jordan and expecting to win.

lj150.bsky.social•38 days ago

The law school with Laurence Tribe on the faculty

aderriere.bsky.social•37 days ago

dryad.technology•37 days ago

i would preferred not to have had this image in my notifications. tbh

nimi0us.bsky.social•37 days ago

Genuinely hope they rock his shit, like generationally rock his shit

dryad.technology•37 days ago

I'm unhappy to say I don't see a lose condition for Trump here. If he gets shamed by a court but in the process makes some international students scared and unhappy for a few days he's probably happy he gets to bully. Even if he loses the court cases the worst scenario is sanctions the taxpayer pays

dryad.technology•37 days ago

But he does seem to be losing these court cases unusually quickly

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