The Trump administration said it would investigate whether Harvard University and student-run magazine Harvard Law Review violated civil rights laws when the editors of famous journals quickly complied with an article written by people of minorities.

The investigation news Monday night came hours after a federal judge agreed to speed up the lawsuit at Harvard University. The Ivy League elite private university is the oldest and richest in the United States, warning that the freeze will threaten important medical and scientific research.

"The article selection process of Harvard Law Review appears to be based on race, adopting a trophy system, selecting winners and losers on race basis," said Craig Trainer, Acting Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.

The government believes that schools and legal review magazines may have violated Chapter VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and allegedly engaged in "racial-based discrimination."

A Harvard representative said the school is “committed to ensuring that the programs and activities it supervises comply with all applicable laws and investigate any credible violations”.

The Harvard Legal Review representative is a legally independent student organization and did not immediately respond to emails seeking comments.

Since taking office, Donald Trump has weakened the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program – an initiative aimed at improving marginalized groups facing and facing a long history of discrimination. The U.S. president describes steps aimed at helping racial and sexual minorities and women as discriminatory to whites and men.

Harvard University has widely resisted government demands, including government calls for restructuring the governance of private universities, changing their recruitment and admission practices to ensure ideological balance of perspectives and end certain academic programs.

Harvard University sued the government last week, refusing to call the government's anti-Semitism task force that said the university president was an illegal request from the government's anti-Semitism task force that "controls the people we hire and we teach."

The first hearing in the case was in Boston on Monday by U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs. Harvard University warned that research on threat cuts was at risk, and the judge set a hearing for the case on July 21.

Rather than seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the freezing before the lawsuit’s outcome, Harvard chose to skip the merits of a case that was directly resolved with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice required a judge to be promptly resolved.

Harvard and other universities have seen government funding for how they handled the Israeli war that swept across campus last year and issues such as DEI, climate initiatives and transgender policies are under threat from the government.

The Trump administration announced in late March that it would initiate a $9 billion review of grants and contracts with Harvard, indicating that the school has failed to take root in anti-Semitism.

Since then, the Trump administration has frozen $2.3 billion in funding to Harvard, threatening to deprive it of tax exemption and deprive it of its ability to enroll foreign students and other measures. Rights groups raise concerns about free speech and academic freedom in government steps.

Harvard University has said that despite its commitment to combat anti-Semitism, Tatrup's detailed demands violate the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech.

Harvard University announced Monday it will rename the office of “Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Attribution” to “Community and Campus Life.” Trump passed executive orders aimed at dismantling the DEIs in the government and private sectors. Harvard’s announcement in an internal email did not list what happened due to the renaming.