Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general to submit an amicus brief in Harvard University's challenge to the Trump Administration's freeze on federal funding to the university.
The brief argues that the freeze would also have spillover effects on states' economies if their research institutions were targeted in the same way.
“The attack on Harvard University’s funding stream is both a destructive attempt to hobble one of our nation’s premier learning institutions and a glimpse at how the Trump Administration will handle dissent,” said Ford. “For the sake of higher education around the country and right here in Nevada, I cannot sit idly by while this attack continues.”
Research spending at the University of Nevada, Reno added $194.1 million to the Nevada economy in fiscal year 2024.
Attorney generals argue that targeting funding in the way Harvard funding is being targeted would trigger impacts, including a loss of opportunity and training for researchers.
The brief was filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
In addition to her and Ford, attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin joined it.
