A federal judge granted a motion filed Friday by the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, College Park and a group of 18 colleges and universities to file a briefing supporting Harvard University in its lawsuit against the Trump administration over federal funding cuts.

In the motion, the schools acknowledge that each institution has “received millions of dollars in federal investments in scientific research over the decades,” but argue that “the elimination of funding at Harvard negatively impacts the entire ecosystem” of American research universities.

In recent months, many of the schools included in the motion have lost federal funding due to decisions made by the Trump administration. In April, UMD had over 50 federal grants cut, totaling tens of millions of dollars, and this week, Hopkins froze hiring and other spending after losing over $50 million in federal research funding since January.

Alongside Hopkins and UMD, the schools that were included in the motion are Boston University, Brown University, California Institute of Technology, Colorado State University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, Oregon State University, Princeton University, Rice University, Rutgers University, Tufts University, University of Oregon, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, and Yale University.

In April Harvard filed the initial suit in Massachusetts District Court after the Trump administration froze more than $2.2 billion in federal funding from the university for refusing to crack down on campus activism. The university filed another lawsuit against the administration Thursday over its ban on foreign students.

Hopkins and UMD could not be reached immediately for comment.

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