Trump administration to investigate Harvard Law Review for ‘race-based discrimination’

Education department claims that article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race'

The Trump administration said it would investigate whether Harvard University and the student-run journal, the Harvard Law Review, violated civil rights law when editors of the prestigious journal fast-tracked consideration of an article written by someone of a racial minority.

News of the investigation on Monday night came hours after a federal judge agreed to expedite Harvard University's lawsuit challenging the administration'sfreeze of $2.3bn in federal funding. The Ivy League elite private university, the oldest and wealthiest in the US, has warned the freeze would threaten vital medical and scientific research.

Reuters contributed reporting