While Harvard celebrated, a judge said she would block the Trump administration from revoking the university's ability to enroll international students.

As hundreds of foldable white chairs spread across Harvard University’s campus on Thursday morning, President Alan Garber began his speech with a dig at the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke a key certification that allows Harvard to enroll international students.

Harvard has requested a preliminary injunction that would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from revoking the school’s ability to enroll international students under the visa programs.

Since regaining the White House, President Trump has been fixated on making an example of those who push back against him.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed the “last thing” he wants to do is hurt Harvard, while his administration is still relentlessly hammering the elite university and as he mounted a new demand for the school to cap its admission of international students.

And that is surely why President Trump has largely spared MIT while fixating on Harvard. International students make up 27.2 percent of the total enrollment at Harvard. They make up 28 percent of the total at MIT. But Donald Trump has said nothing about foreign students at MIT, while seeking to bar Harvard from enrolling any at all.

The president was asked about the current status of his administration's legal feud with the Ivy League university.

The constitutional law scholar also warned of the wider fallout of the president's targeting of Harvard University.