Eighteen colleges and universities, including all Ivy League schools except Columbia University, are seeking to file a friend-of-the-court, or amicus brief, to back Harvard University in its ongoing battle with President Donald Trump over enrolling foreign students.

The schools supporting Harvard are: Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, University of Maryland-College Park, Tufts University, Rutgers University, Princeton University, Rice University, Oregon State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, Colorado State University, California Institute of Technology, Boston University, and Brown University, reported Politico senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein in an update on X on Friday.

Columbia also has been targeted by Trump after a series of pro-Palestinian protests on its campus last year. 

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