The judge, who is tasked with weighing the scope of the government in higher education in the recent lawsuit of the University of Harvard against the Trump administration, is an experienced prosecutor and lawyer with the history of taking difficult cases – including those involving both Ivy and the president.
“95% of life is appearing,” US District Court Alison Dale Burrose gave up on Monday morning in the Boston courtroom, where she watched Harvard’s legal battle against Trump administration over $ 2 billion frozen federal funds.
The hearing had to be handed over to Zoom, but the court technology staff struggled to make it work. Burrouz was sitting for 15 minutes on the bench, noting that “81 unhappy people” were waiting for them to enter. After the lawyers for each country said they were ready to continue, she began the hearing of Sans-Zoom.
Harvard has demanded an accelerated final decision, not an immediate money recovery order, leaving $ 2 billion in federal subsidies and contracts that the university says is crucial to the important studies that hang in balance. The University’s lawyers specifically requested in a court case that Burrose would be appointed in the case, citing her involvement in a linked federal funding case for research brought by the Association of American Universities, which includes Harvard.
Burrose “is a brilliant lawyer and I think it will give everyone a fair shaking,” Lawrence’s tribe, a professor of constitutional law in Harvard, told Monday.
“It seems that the countries are trying to carry this case as quickly as possible,” Burrose said on Monday. At the 15-minute hearing, she scheduled oral arguments for July 21.
CNN turned to the White House, Burrose and Harvard University for comment.
Way to the District Court judge
Burroughs worked as a partner at NUTter McClennen & Fish LLP, a law firm, co -founder of former Supreme Court Judge Louis D. Brandis, when President Barack Obama nominated her as a District Court judge in the summer of 2014.
Burrose graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont before receiving his legal degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.
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She then spent about 17 years pursuing criminal cases for the federal government as a lawyer in the United States in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, taking over the emerging criminal gangs, drug offenders, economic crimes and technological cases.
Donald Sterling, a former US lawyer for Massachusetts County, said the hiring of Burrose as an assistant lawyer in the United States was an easy decision years ago. Even then she was a star, he told CNN.
“Alison has never been ashamed to speak her opinion, but she usually does it with a sense of humor,” Sterling said, describing Burrose as “hardworking, balanced, smart and highly ethical.”
“Alison was a prosecutor without nonsense, but he always listened to what the defender had to say. When he made a decision for the prosecutor’s office, she was guided entirely by the facts and the law,” he added.
Alison Dale Burrose was confirmed as US District Judge for Massachusetts County in January 2015 – US Senior Committee on Judiciary’s Judiciary System
Obama said he was confident that Burrose would “serve the American people with integrity and an unwavering commitment to justice,” in a statement about the time of its nomination.
As part of the confirmation process, the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Burrose to list its 10 most important cases. Among those that she listed were one of the first cases in the nation, bound by the Patriot Act, which came into force after the September 11 terrorist attacks to expand governmental surveillance powers; Complex offshore money laundering scheme; large -scale telemarketing scam; contractor for cocaine cocaine cocaine trafficking organization; and Maine’s US troops accused of stealing and selling a championship baseball rings by Boston Red Sox Ted Williams player.
“I am fully committed to set aside any personal views that I could have and be fair to anyone who could appear before me,” Burrose told the committee. “During my career, I shared effectively on behalf of both the US government and the individual accused.”
She had been sworn in as an American district judge for Massachusetts County in January 2015.
Harvard’s affirmative action decision
This is not the first case of a high profile Burroughs associated with Harvard University. As a federal judge in 2019, she confirmed the process of adopting Ivy League in a case of affirmative action – a decision that the US Supreme Court has later annulled.
She ruled that while the Harvard acceptance process is “not perfect”, it will not “dismantle a very fine acceptance program that goes through a constitutional collection only because it can do better.”
Receipt, aware of the race, occupy an “important place in society and help to ensure that colleges and universities can offer a diverse atmosphere that encourages training, improves scholarships and encourages mutual respect and understanding,” the judge said in his decision.
The case encouraged the national control of the university admission practices and in 2023 the Supreme Court issued a remarkable decision, saying that universities could no longer take into account the competition in adoption decisions. The decision overturns a long -time precedent, who benefits from black and Latin American students in higher education.
History with Trump Administration
As a federal district judge, Burrose has placed railings of Trump’s administration before.
As the hordes of protesters descended at the US airports, where travelers were detained under Trump’s trip to people from Trump by people from seven mainly Muslim countries, Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the removal of persons from these countries. The Boston Logan International Airport has become a factual shelter for many of these families.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Burrose oversees the case brought by Harvard and MIT against the Trump administration, which insists international students in schools offering hours only for online will have to leave the United States. The administration returned this policy before a decision was made.
And two weeks ago, Burroughs issued another time limiting, blocking the federal research department of research in the judicial process, filed by the Association of American Universities.
CNN’s scanner, Nicky Brown, Joan Biscup, Andy Rose and Ray Sanchez have contributed to this report.
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