US EditionJudge finds Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens over Gaza war protests
Judge William G. Young found evidence that top officials coordinated deportations to suppress pro-Palestinian speech, affecting hundreds of non-citizen students and academics.
- A U.S. District Judge ruled that President Donald Trump's administration unconstitutionally targeted foreign students and faculty for deportation based on their pro-Palestinian advocacy, violating the First Amendment.
- Judge William Young found evidence that the administration's policies chilled free speech on campuses, affecting non-citizen students and academics, and ruled in favor of the plaintiff groups.
- The ruling came after evidence showed that the administration had systematically sought to suppress political speech, impacting numerous university members.
- The Justice Department denied any such policy existed, asserting lawful enforcement for national security, while the White House announced plans to appeal the ruling, claiming it undermines national security and student safety.
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Judge: Trump Admin Violated Protesters' Constitutional Rights
Source: Anadolu / Getty A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio violated the constitutional rights of international students and professors by moving to deport them for attending pro-Palestine protests. According to ABC News, the lawsuit was filed by the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association in March. A bench trial was hel…
Reagan Judge Compares Trump Administration Tactics To Ku Klux Klan - Above the Law
Known firebrand leftist Ronald Reagan stacked the courts with woke activist judges who keep blocking Donald Trump’s glorious agenda! First, Judge John Coughenour blocks the executive order erasing the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship guarantee as if some “Constitution” constrains presidential action. Now, Judge William Young of the District of Massachusetts unleashes a massive excoriation of the Trump administration’s effort to use immigration…
Judge rules Trump illegally targeted Gaza protesters
What happenedA federal judge in Boston Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for voicing their support for Palestinians was an illegal, “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”The case was brought by a group of university faculty in response to the administration’s targeting of noncitizen students, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who had publicly opp…
Massachusetts district judge finds attempted deportation of pro-Palestine protestors violates First Amendment
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by attempting to deport non-citizens for protesting the conflict in Gaza in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio. Judge Williams, a district judge for the US District Court for Massachusetts, stated in his opinion that the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had acted intentionally “to chill the …
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