Duke backs MIT, Harvard lawsuit against Trump administration over visa restrictions

Duke University has thrown in its support for a lawsuit filed by two elite Massachusetts universities against the White House's plan to suspend visas for international students whose colleges go purely online for the fall semester. On Monday, Duke announced that it had signed on to an amicus brief supporting the lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University contesting visa directives rolled out by the White House earlier this month. The new directive…