Judge blocks Trump’s decision to revoke Harvard’s international student program

A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration decision to revoke Harvard university’s ability to enroll international students.

The temporary restraining order stops the government from pulling Harvard’s certification in the student and exchange visitor program, which allows the school to sponsor international students as they obtain visas to study in the U.S.

Harvard filed the lawsuit in U.S. district court in Massachusetts Friday.

The temporary restraining order from a U.S. district judge came only hours after the school filed a lawsuit.

It’s the same judge handling a separate Harvard lawsuit over the White House freeze of more than $2.5 billion dollars in federal funding.

Harvard previously called it unlawful for the department of homeland security to revoke its certification in the student and exchange visitor program.

The school called the Trump administration’s action a quote, “clear retaliation” for its refusal of “ideologically rooted policy demands.”