Prestigious lawyers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States.
Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest of the top 150 ranked law schools in the United States.[6] The first-year class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students, who take most first-year classes together. Aside from the JD program, Harvard also awards both LLM and SJD degrees.
HLS is home to the world’s largest academic law library.[7][8] The school has an estimated 115 full-time faculty members.[3] According to Harvard Law’s 2020 ABA-required disclosures, 99% of 2019 graduates passed the bar exam.[9][10][11] The school’s graduates accounted for more than one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerks between 2000 and 2010, more than any other law school in the United States.[12]
And a large war chest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment
The Harvard University endowment, valued at $50.7 billion as of June 30, 2023,[1] is the largest academic endowment in the world.[2][3] Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending the year with its largest sum in history.
FYI, that endowment is about 10 bill more, but it’s mostly earmarked, and not just sitting there available to deploy in a legal battle
I’m thinking less that they’d spend billions of dollars on legal fees and more that makes the institution less-vulnerable to having federal funding cut.
US political influence, investment worth, and “money” about to FAFO about cold hard cash money and true international reputation ?
Threaten the students, and the universities join right in. Threaten their money, though…
