In the lawsuit filed early Friday in federal court in Boston, the Ivy League school called out the government’s ban as a violation of the Constitution and warned that it would have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.”

The president’s fight threatens to leave the school a different place even if it ultimately wins its lawsuits.

If Trump succeeds in crushing Harvard, all other American institutions of learning, science and humanities will be at risk,' writes an L.A. Times reader.