Lawyers for Harvard University urged a federal judge to ensure that the Trump administration won’t impose alternative restrictions on the school’s enrollment of foreign students after the government’s earlier efforts were blocked.

As President Donald Trump and his team dialed up the pressure on Harvard University last month, threatening to bar its international students, the school issued what was at once a warning and a plea.

Experts and former officials said it was unusual for a cabinet secretary to try to influence the Treasury Department’s sanctions process to target a domestic entity.

In the months since it became a top target in the administration’s efforts to overhaul higher education, Harvard has activated an all-out media blitz to burnish its image.

Thousands of Harvard University alumni have signed on to a legal message of support for their alma mater, CNN has learned, an unprecedented effort to back the school as it challenges the Trump administration’s decision to halt more than $2.

Harvard’s lawyers informed a judge Thursday that the Trump administration is resisting several provisions the university wants included in a court injunction.

Two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed an amicus brief, including six that joined the coalition in a filing Monday, court records show.

Education Dept. considering cuts for California universities while making ‘progress’ with Harvard and Columbia, McMahon says