Legal analysts say Harvard has a strong case in arguing that the U.S. government improperly cut $2.2 billion in federal funding from the Ivy League school. The federal district judge presiding over a key hearing Monday appeared skeptical of the government’s arguments.

Harvard University was back in court for a hearing in its funding fight case against the Trump administration, who froze more than $2 billion in federal funding for research this Spring. Harvard lawyer Steven Lehotsky argued the government is in “blatant and unrepentant violation” of the First Amendment,