This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6:07 p.m. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear an appeal to a ruling in favor of UC researchers who argued that it was illegal to terminate research grants based on diversity-related language. Read more...

Photo: The U.S. Department of Justice building is pictured. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning a lower court ruling that bars the termination of grants based on the inclusion of diversity-related language on Tuesday. (Myka Fromm/Daily Bruin senior staff)

The UC signed on to an amicus brief filed July 22, standing by Harvard University’s April 2025 lawsuit against the Trump administration. The University was one of 36 colleges and universities that signed the brief, which urges the First Circuit Court of Appeals to side with Harvard in its lawsuit to restore the nearly $2.2 billion in research grants that the federal government suspended in April 2025. Read more...

Photo: Kerckhoff Hall, which frequently stands in for the Harvard University campus in movies and TV shows, is pictured. The UC signed on to an amicus brief filed July 22, standing by Harvard’s April 2025 lawsuit against the Trump administration. (Brighton Ludwig/Daily Bruin)