The Trump Organization fired a conservative lawyer who served as its ethics adviser hours after the president attacked him for helping Harvard University sue the administration. The lawyer, William Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan,

The president of Harvard on Wednesday defended the university’s decision to sue the Trump administration, adding that the institution “cannot compromise” on core principles like the First Amendment. Harvard took legal action against the Trump administration on Monday over the government’s decision to freeze over $2 billion in federal funding meant for the university after it refused to make the reforms it ordered.

Harvard President Alan Garber said Wednesday the university won’t bend to the Trump administration’s demands to change several of its academic and administrative policies.   “We will