Another investigation into Harvard University was launched by the Trump administration, this time looking at its admissions.

The Trump administration is targeting the Ivy League university under a law typically used to go after government contractors for swindling.

President Donald Trump’s probe into Harvard University’s admissions policies has sparked intense debate among the school’s faculty and students, with some highlighting the elite school's faults."I think this university has gone through a lot of conflict with the student body.

The Justice Department launched an investigation into Harvard University over allegations that the institution was failing to comply with the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that ended affirmative action in admissions.

The Department of Justice probe comes nearly two years after the Supreme Court decided that the consideration of race in admissions is unconstitutional. Harvard was the named plaintiff in the landmark case that upended four decades of legal precedent that had established that colleges could consider race in student admissions.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the use of race in admissions to its top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.