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BOWIE: “Yes. I’m really grateful for President Garber for exercising such leadership here because what the president of the United States is demanding of universities is nothing short of authoritarian. There’s a quote on the building of the Department of Justice, ‘Where law ends, tyranny begins.’ And tyranny, frankly, is the only word to describe what the Trump Administration is doing with respect to universities. He’s seeking to block funding millions, billions of dollars to university hospitals, to medical research without any legal authority. He is violating the First Amendment rights of universities and faculty by demanding that if universities want to keep this money, they have to suppress our speech and change what we teach and how we study. And he’s doing all of this and issuing all of these demands in defiance of any kind of legal limit that would prohibit him from making these sorts of demands. So our lawsuit is contesting the legality of all of this. We’re trying to defend the First Amendment in this context. And we’re really grateful that President Garber appears to have gotten the same message, that there’s just no complying and no negotiating with an authoritarian — authoritarian demand like this.”