In a courtroom in Boston on Monday, a lawyer for Harvard called the Trump administration’s case against the school “cooked up.”

Harvard University has appeared in federal court, challenging $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs pushed back Monday on the government’s assertion that the case is a straightforward contract dispute and that antisemitism on Harvard’s campus justified cutting the grants. She also questioned whether the government went through the proper process to terminate the grants.