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.

Donald Trump slammed a federal judge presiding over Harvard University’s lawsuit to have billions of dollars in federal funding reinstated as a “TOTAL DISASTER”, in an escalation of his attacks against the Ivy League institution.