Trump says Harvard will lose tax exempt status

I question whether Trump has the legitimate legal authority to decide the taxable status of specific institutions. If he wants to change the rules about what qualifies for tax-exempt status, that takes an act of Congress (which he can probably get, eventually).<p>What he <i>can</i> do is tell the IRS to go through the <i>existing</i> rules and find a reason why Harvard doesn&#x27;t qualify for tax-exempt status. The problems will be that, first, whatever the reason given will be, it will head for a court case, and second, it will be almost impossible to interpret the rules so that the new interpretation hits Harvard <i>only</i> (and not, say, the other Ivy League schools).

What prevents them from instead justifying tax-exempt status as a faith-based nonprofit for their FSM-related charitable work, say?

Harvard does a great job at making really good graduates who go on to do great things.<p>Harvard who doesnt control their grads go on to become supreme court justices and other politically appointed positions.<p>Harvard takes blame?<p>Now they are digging deep to find other reasons to attack harvard?