Universities, which are defined by academic independence yet depend on government support, are extremely vulnerable to government bullying. Harvard’s decision suggests that some, at least, have a limit to how far they’re willing to be pushed. nyer.cm/vxd8NDr

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Today’s divisive issues are difficult to summarize. That is why it is so refreshing to have Jeannie Suk Gersen cogently show that it is legally correct for Harvard University to challenge the Trump Administration’s attempt to impinge on academic independence for its own base partisan

The current crisis facing higher education in America presents an historic opportunity to consider radical solutions to universities’ heavy dependence on federal funding, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/ltkH3Ht

The current crisis facing higher education in America presents an historic opportunity to consider radical solutions to universities’ heavy dependence on federal funding, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/HxakRkz

The current crisis facing higher education in America presents an historic opportunity to consider radical solutions to universities’ heavy dependence on federal funding, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/DEOugf9

Justice David Souter passed away last Thursday, at the age of 85. Jeannie Suk Gersen, who once clerked for Souter, remembers her former mentor’s legacy. nyer.cm/ASIo04p

In memoriam, Justice David H. Souter. I will miss him. newyorker.com/news/postscrip…

This week on #WeThePeoplePodcast, #SCOTUS Justice David Souter’s former clerks, Judge Kevin Newsom and Jeannie Suk Gersen, join Justice Stephen Breyer for a conversation on Justice Souter’s life and constitutional legacy. Listen: ow.ly/FC4m50VTBgv

We did a Not Another Politics Podcast on the Trump administration’s approach to universities and how it builds on the Obama administration’s. With Jacob Gersen on his and Jeannie Suk Gersen's great papers, "The Sex Bureaucracy" & "The Six Bureaucracy". podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-…

My dispatch from Harvard University Commencement today in The New Yorker daily newsletter: newyorker.com/newsletter/the…

Harvard’s leaders did not refer to the university’s ongoing fight against the Trump Administration during its commencement, but they “were undoubtedly aware that the stakes are nothing less than the institution’s survival,” Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/oaYS4fu

Harvard, which held its commencement yesterday, has become something of an institutional hero for rebuffing the Trump Administration’s threats and demands. But the university’s survival is still at stake, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/oDzAO3w

The Skrmetti decision is unlikely to change very much, but “a Supreme Court decision declaring that there is no equal-protection right in this context is a significant setback for transgender rights more broadly,” Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/dZsMu2a

The “beating heart” of the Skrmetti decision was the Supreme Court’s “subdued but palpable horror at the state of scientific evidence on the efficacy and safety of pediatric gender-affirming treatments,” Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/yI3gbQY

The Supreme Court was always unlikely to strike down a Tennessee state ban on gender-affirming medical treatments for minors, but the Biden Justice Department’s strategy made it even more improbable, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/3KV5TzB

The Senate has rejected the War Powers Resolution—a move that will only embolden the President to act unilaterally without congressional approval, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/jKyCZgN

How did the Trump Administration act unilaterally to bomb Iran without congressional approval? It’s a precedent that’s been set for decades, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/0LhZ9WP

Read ⁦Jeannie Suk Gersen⁩ on the scandal of what both parties have allowed the President’s war powers to become—and Congress’s multi-decade cowardice. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

My take on Trump v CASA. open.substack.com/pub/executivef…