In a courtroom in Boston on Monday, a lawyer for Harvard called the Trump administration’s case against the school “cooked up.”

Harvard called the government’s rationale for cutting billions of dollars in federal funding illegal and “cooked up.”

Harvard University will be back in court Monday for a major hearing in its funding fight case against the Trump administration, the next step in a battle over restoring more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the White House this spring.