Harvard’s odds to win its Boston court battle look favorable—but the larger war is up in the air. Legal analysts say Harvard has a strong case in arguing that the U.S. government improperly cut $2.2 billion in federal funding from the Ivy League school.

The Trump administration and Harvard University on Monday traded barbs in a critical hearing in Boston over the government’s threats to slash billions of dollars in the Ivy League school’s federal research funding.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs has ruled against the Trump administration in a separate lawsuit brought by Harvard.